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09/24/2026
Will We Even Need Admin Panels?
I updated a live website without logging in to anything. After years in vendor dashboards, it raises a real question: what is the admin screen for now?

09/10/2026
Four Frames From the Door of a Huey
Before video, 3D or AI, I was a crew chief on a UH-1H, allowed to bring my own camera on some flights. Four photographs from around the borders of Turkey and Iraq.

08/27/2026
The Beaches Put a Bounty on Parking
Taggr's job ads offer parking agents an incentive for every violation they find. The drivers they catch are the customers these beach towns' businesses are open for.

08/03/2026
A Night of Poetry and Music
A free night of poetry and acoustic music at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville Beach. The event has now taken place; this is the invitation as it was published.

06/08/2025
Google’s Veo3: trial and cost
I asked Gemini how video production with Veo 3 works: fair use and resale of generated clips, who owns the output, what the trial allows, and what a 30-second commercial would actually cost.

02/25/2018
The $1,800 Bottle of Skin Glue
My son fell and gashed his chin before T-ball practice. The bill that followed, and the letter I got back when I questioned it, say more about American emergency billing than any explainer could.
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09/24/2026
Will We Even Need Admin Panels?
I updated a live website without logging in to anything. After years in vendor dashboards, it raises a real question: what is the admin screen for now?

09/10/2026
Four Frames From the Door of a Huey
Before video, 3D or AI, I was a crew chief on a UH-1H, allowed to bring my own camera on some flights. Four photographs from around the borders of Turkey and Iraq.

08/27/2026
The Beaches Put a Bounty on Parking
Taggr's job ads offer parking agents an incentive for every violation they find. The drivers they catch are the customers these beach towns' businesses are open for.