Your average tech guy, navigating all this alongside the rest of you.

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• I'm not an engineer. But I did build a thing. Lessons learned from vibe-coding my way through the holidays

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This blog is not written by me, but rather for me. You're welcome to enjoy it as well.

• Walden, Glamping, and the Gig Economy Challenging Thoreau's independence, one laundry day at a time.
• The Whiskey Tax: When Revolutionary Rebels Became the Taxman Founding Fathers: From tax protesters to tax collectors in record time
• Nietzsche’s Breakdown: When the Philosopher Became the Patient Reflecting on Nietzsche's collapse: a lesson in human limits.
• Woodstock: From Catastrophe to Cultural Goldmine How Woodstock's chaotic failure became music history's biggest brand win
• Hemingway's Tough-Guy Mask: More Paris Cafés Than Bullfights Discover the softer side behind Hemingway's tough-guy legend.
• Lance Armstrong: The Scapegoat We Needed Exploring why we vilified Lance while celebrating a drug-ridden cycling culture.
• France, the Myth of Resistance, and the Stories We Tell Exploring how nations reconstruct their past to fit present narratives.
• Why Do We Keep Giving Picasso a Free Pass? Do we overlook Picasso's personal flaws in favor of his artistic genius?
• Karl Marx: The Pen, the Poverty, and the Paradox Exploring the peculiar life of Karl Marx, the armchair revolutionary.
• Kerouac, Icons, and the Beauty of Frozen Legends Exploring the gap between Kerouac's legend and his real-life end.

Things I’ve Made

• The Daily RAT A daily word association game built over Christmas break
• Mike Gibney Photo My photography site that used to get much more attention