CREATING ANCHORPOINT: VIBECODING FROM ZERO TO PRODUCTION (PART 3)

I hired a developer for $0.000003 an hour. Not a joke—that’s how AnchorPoint was built. I came at it like a project manager, not a coder. My “dev skills” peaked with some law school HTML/CSS hacks for a campaign site. JavaScript? That’s for people who debug without breaking a sweat. I did plenty of sweating.

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DEVELOPING ANCHORPOINT: FROM FRUSTRATION TO BLUEPRINT (PART 2)

There’s a stretch of road between Moody Air Force Base and our home in Valdosta that lives in my head rent-free. It’s about ~10 minutes of nothing. No gas stations. No coffee shops. Just trees, humidity, empty or rundown husks of former businesses pre-hurricane, and the occasional armadillo casualty.

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DEVELOPING ANCHORPOINT: OUR MILITARY FAMILY STORY (PART 1)

There’s a moment right after the PCS orders drop when everything feels electric. You’re going somewhere new. A fresh start. A chance to explore, to build, to belong. Then reality sets in.

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BUILDING ZONEMATCH- A TIMEZONE TOOL FOR THE CHRONOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED

Remote work means coordinating with people across timezones, and this shouldn’t be hard. Yet every timezone tool I found was either bloated with features I didn’t need or looked like it was designed in 2003 using Excel conditional formatting.

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VIBECODING WITH GEMINI-CLI: HOW I BUILT A GIT BACKUP UTILITY

I built GiterDone from scratch in about five hours using Gemini CLI, Google’s new terminal-based coding AI tool, all without having written a line of Rust before. I prompted it to scaffold the project, wire up SSH-only Git sync, schedule cron jobs, handle divergence with force-push logic, and statically compile for musl. What started as a weekend tinkering session turned into a working Rust binary faster than I could brew my morning tea in proof that even a non-coder can “vibecode” a solution end-to-end when armed with the right AI sidekick. Enter Gemini-CLI.

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EXPLORING THE ELECTRIC FUTURE: A PERSONAL JOURNEY

One approaches a significant birthday trip with a certain level of expectation: good food, better company, and perhaps a modicum of vehicular reliability. My wife’s 30th in St. Louis promised all of this, save for the last point, which was left entirely to the whims of the rental car gods. Opting for the ‘mystery car’, a delightful euphemism for ‘whatever’s left on the lot’, we anticipated anything from a compact sedan to a mid-size SUV. What we received, however, was a rather sleek, if somewhat bulbous, Hyundai Ioniq 5. An electric vehicle.

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE UNPAID LABOUR AND THE UNWILLING PAYER (OR "YES, YOUR CAR MIGHT NEED A SUBSCRIPTION MODEL")

A few years ago a rather earnest automotive executive informed me, with a straight face, that customers would positively adore forking over $15 a month to activate a car’s pre-installed heated seats. I believe I snorted so hard scotch came out of my nose (it burned). Turns out, Cox Automotive’s research largely agrees with my assessment: only about a quarter of car buyers tolerate subscription features, and the term “money-grab” seems to be a popular choice in focus groups.

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THE ISSUE OF PAY FOR PLAY IDENTITY- SSO, THE PAYWALL, SECURITY, AND YOU (OR YOUR BUSINESS)

Many a day, I’ve found myself peering at the changelogs of some cracking open-source project or freemium bit of kit, only to spot it: Single Sign-On (SSO), specifically the more robust flavour like OpenID Connect (OIDC), tucked behind a paid tier. As a chap who spends an unhealthy amount of time tinkering with home servers and pondering the existential dread of misconfigured firewalls, this makes me unreasonably cranky “Another feature locked away,” I think.

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TRANSFORMING MEDICAL NOTATION WITH AI (OR "WHY ARE PHYSICIANS ALWAYS SO TIRED?) (PART I)

My incredible wife is a brilliant and gifted physician, but I’ve learned in the last few years that the biggest headache for nearly every doctor I’ve met is note-taking and charting. Oddly enough, the records you receive from your doctor through your patient-facing EHR (Electronic Health Record) system don’t just “get there” through fancy doctor magic… yet. I’m hoping to change that, purely selfishly, of course, because I’d like my wife back from the tyranny of the keyboard.

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WHY I REGRET NOT USING TAILSCALE FROM THE START ("CLICK HERE, GET STARTED IN 5 MINUTES!" ISN'T NECESSARILY BS.)

Right, let’s be honest. We’ve all been there: staring glassy-eyed at the home router admin page at 2 a.m., trying to coax sense from a port forwarding rule while the hotel Wi-Fi wheezes like a pensioner with bronchitis. All I wanted was to stream Shrek 2 from my homelab in Georgia (Listen; it’s a great movie, I won’t accept anyone’s judgment). What I got was a three-act tragedy in NAT traversal.

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