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Longform for the nerds. Design systems at the scale where semantics stop being optional, engineering that survives contact with a publishing deadline, and self-hosted infrastructure from the metal up. Designers should know how to spin up their own stack — some of these posts are the case for it. Fair warning: twenty-minute rants about SCSS and design tokens live here. I write like me.
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The closest you'll get to Brave Origin for macOS without paying for it Brave sells Origin, a de-cluttered build, for $59.99. The same features switch off by managed policy on a normal install. One script, one sudo, ten lines I changed and why, and the two I got wrong first. Read Post -
Your TV Is Spying on You Smart TVs use ACR to fingerprint what is on your screen and sell it. I caught my Hisense Google TV doing it 20 times in 15 idle minutes, with every privacy setting off. Read Post -
Cheapshot: Everything to Save, Nothing to Trust A prescription label went up in a photo I uploaded for a cooking question. Cheapshot reads and redacts screenshots on your Mac, before anything reaches an API. Read Post -
Your Rank Tracker Can't See 62% of What Gets Cited Only 11% of cited domains overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity. Three of the five answer engines never look at Google's ranking, and Google's own two agree on citations only 14% of the time. What the AI agents actually read, what measurably works, and which best practice is already dead. Read Post -
...Endtroducing A little background on me and my work, and a long-form version of my about page. Read Post -
Resurrecting Subfolio: Bringing a Ten Year Old Tool Back with an LLM and Elbow Grease AREA 17's Subfolio CMS ran on PHP 5.6 EOL and was broken. Here's how I ported it to AstroJS and made it free to run on Cloudflare and GitHub Pages. Read Post