I’ve been having a lot of fun the past few days building out my home server. It’s been a fun adventure revisiting old territory, and I wanted to take some time to write about the setup I’ve settled on for now. The core idea behind this setup is simple: the foundation should be well documented. That way, if I want or need to tear it all down, build a new server, and spin everything back up, I can do it with minimal effort. This setup definitely still has some rough edges, but what I have is so...

I’m sitting here writing this on the couch of the in-law suite at my girlfriend’s parents’ house in St. George, Utah. Now that is a sentence I never would have guessed I’d be writing last year. Honestly, it’s not even a sentence I think I could have guessed I’d be writing back in April. But here I am. That feels like as good a place as any to pause, look forward, and write down a few goals for 2026. I’m a firm believer that growth without goals is mostly accidental, and I’d like to be a litt...

I just merged PR #21 into django-blog, adding first-class h-card support across the app. This is part of my slow march toward more semantic, IndieWeb-friendly markup without bolting on heavy third-party tooling. This change is mostly invisible from a UI perspective, but it adds a lot of structure under the hood. What’s an H-Card? An h-card is a microformat for representing a person or organization in HTML. Think of it as a lightweight, standards-based alternative to things like JSON-LD for b...