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• Theming & The Theme Builder

  2026-02-07

  Discover 50+ color themes, slash commands for quick switching, and the interactive Theme Builder for creating your own custom palettes.

• How Neural Networks Work

  2026-02-03

  A Brain Analogy 🧠

• Tutorial: Coding with Cline and Google Gemini

  2026-01-28

  A step-by-step guide to setting up the Cline AI coding agent with Google's Gemini Pro model.

• Chinatown Nights: Neon & Noodles

  2026-01-20

  Exploring the electric glow of Grant Avenue after dark.

• Merlin: Smart Watermarks + Web-Ready Photos from the CLI 🧙‍♂️✨

  2026-01-19

  A Bash-powered image wizard that batch resizes, converts, and applies a smart black/white watermark based on background brightness.

• Chinatown Stroll: Lanterns, Hills, and Dim Sum

  2026-01-19

  An afternoon walking Grant Avenue, soaking in the red lanterns and historic architecture.

• Relational MongoDB

  2026-01-18

  A walk down the relational lane with MongoDB

• Automating Local VMs on macOS (Apple Silicon) with Lima 🦙🍏

  2026-01-18

  A repeatable, CLI-first framework to spin up multiple independent Lima VMs (with optional persistent disks), and provision MongoDB Community or Postgres idempotently.

• Atlas and Azure Private Link 🔗

  2026-01-16

  Create an Azure Private Link connection to MongoDB Atlas and connect an application using a Private Endpoint–aware connection string.

• Neon Nights and City Lights

  2026-01-12

  Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC9 at Night?

• Atlas Online Archive: Cost & Usage

  2026-01-12

  MongoDB Atlas Online Archive — Cost Estimate & Usage Modeling

• Text vs Vector Search in MongoDB Atlas

  2026-01-09

  Feel the Difference — Keyword Search vs Vector Search in MongoDB Atlas

• MongoDB EA on OrbStack

  2026-01-06

  How to run a secure, persistent MongoDB EA instance using OrbStack.

• Deploying 11ty to Google Firebase

  2026-01-03

  A quick guide on setting up the Firebase CLI and deploying a static 11ty site.

• AI Must-Reads: OpenAI + Google DeepMind

  2025-12-30

  A curated, high-signal reading list of official OpenAI and Google DeepMind/Google AI posts (models, evals, safety, and developer tooling).

• OrbStack and MongoDB

  2025-12-28

  How to run a secure, persistent MongoDB Community instance on using OrbStack.

• Getting Started with OrbStack on macOS

  2025-12-28

  A fast, lightweight guide to replacing Docker Desktop with OrbStack for containers, Linux VMs, and Kubernetes.

• Kotlin 101

  2025-12-28

  A comprehensive guide to learning the Kotlin programming language by building a real-world CLI tool.

• Sample Gallery

  2025-12-27

  A demonstration of the custom gallery shortcode using 25 sample images.

• Bash One Pager

  2025-12-27

  A little ditty about bash

• MongoDB Oh Yeah

  2025-12-26

  Moving beyond rows and columns: Understanding the power of the Document Model and the ease of Atlas.

• Yolo Blog

  2025-12-25

  A comprehensive guide to the features, architecture, and developer workflow of this blog engine.

• Turing to Transformers

  2025-12-25

  Tracing the evolution of Artificial Intelligence from 1950 to the Agentic era.

• Cracking the Bat

  2025-12-25

  A guide to understanding and calculating essential baseball batting statistics using custom CSS formulas.

• Code Snippets

  2025-12-25

  Code Snippets for Syntax Highlighting showcase

• A Look at Baseball History

  2025-12-25

  From the Knickerbocker Rules to Moneyball, exploring the data and soul of America's Pastime.

• Theme Showcase

  2025-12-25

  A live visualization of the currently selected theme's palette, typography, and UI components.

• Markdown Style Guide

  2025-12-24

  A comprehensive guide showing how all markdown elements are rendered.

• The Great Western Loop

  2023-08-15

  From the faces of Rushmore to the alien vibes of Devils Tower and the peaks of Estes Park.

• Playing with Pixelmator

  2022-02-20

  An 80s'ish looking brand...totally text tubular

• Machine images for vSphere

  2022-01-08

  Semi-automated Ubuntu image builds - part 1

• Flowerhood

  2021-05-20

  blooming in the neighborhood

• To Broken Bow we Go!

  2021-05-02

  Hi-Ho-Hi-Ho to Broken Bow we Go...

• The Fruit Pie Project

  2021-02-14

  Yummo Pop-Art

• The road to Van Horn

  2020-07-22

  Travelling on the edge of the central time zone

• Marfa Texas

  2020-07-21

  Quite possibly my favorite place on the planet

• Retromac Machine

  2018-11-23

  Mac Pro powered homelab

• Alpine and Marfa TX

  2013-01-26

  Wide open spaces of Big Bend country.

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