Posts

9 posts, newest first.

Playing Sea of Stars on My Mac with GameHub

How I got Sea of Stars (a game with no native Mac version) running at 1080p/60fps on macOS using GameHub, plus when it's worth reaching for.

Jul 12, 2026gaming

Hello, world

Why this blog exists, and the stack that runs it: Astro on Cloudflare's edge, built and shipped from a self-hosted Forgejo.

Jul 2, 2026devhomelab

Improving Quality with Story Points

Why story point estimates go wrong (cognitive biases and group effects) and a story point 'tax' to drive quality upward.

Mar 18, 2015engineering

Goodbye AppFog, Hello DigitalOcean

Moving my blog to a $5 DigitalOcean droplet and setting up WordPress on nginx, PHP, and MySQL from scratch.

Nov 12, 2013homelab

My Favorite Mac Apps

A tour of the Mac apps I used daily in 2013: package managers, editors, media apps, and utilities worth installing.

Aug 5, 2013homelab

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

Resources to help a new Rails developer get started: editors, learning Ruby, the Hartl tutorial, RailsCasts, and Code School.

Jul 10, 2013dev

Color Terminal on Mac

Add color to your Mac terminal with a .bashrc, a styled bash prompt, git branch info, and colorized ls output.

Jun 20, 2013shellhomelab

Fish Shell

Why I switched from bash to fish, plus how to install it, make it your default shell, and customize it with fish_config.

Jun 4, 2013shellhomelab

Start a Blog

How I set up this blog in 2013: Wordpress on AppFog's free tier, a Svbtle theme, Disqus comments, and Google Analytics.

May 15, 2013dev