AI deploys software. It doesn't operate it.
AI made deploying software cheap. AI made finding vulnerabilities cheap. AI did not make maintaining software cheap. That gap is going to break a lot of self-hosted sites.…
A little secret
You Don't Need to Pay $200/Month
I ran 20 real-world TypeScript coding tasks against 16 LLMs. The most expensive model scored 98.8%. An open-weights model scored 94.8%.…
Open means open. Or it means nothing.
🫠This post probably won't make me popular with Entri. Neither will it create friends at GoDaddy nor IONOS. And that's fine. But I'm not writing this to pick a fight. I'm writing it be…
Maybe I Don't Want to Do This Alone
For three years, I ran Magic Pages alone. I liked it that way. Make a decision, execute, move on. No meetings. No alignment. No explaining myself. Just me and my work. When people asked if I'd e…
The Weight of the Good Days
Two days ago, I had 1,200 websites go down. Cascading Docker failures, a swarm that refused to rebuild, datacenter capacity issues, and me sitting on my couch trying to hold it all together. That…
Updating 1,200 Ghost Sites
This is the ninth post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements First…
Fighting Ghost Magic Link Spam (and Rethinking My CDN)
If you've been following along, you know I spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about infrastructure. This post is about a problem I've been really really annoyed with for the last co…
Drawing the Lines
This is the eighth post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements Firs…
The Rehearsal Stage
This is the seventh post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements Fir…
Did This Email Arrive In My Inbox?
Back in August, I asked a question: Did this email arrive in YOUR inbox? Did This Email Arrive In Your Inbox?So uhh...hi. I hope you’re not just reading this on my website, through ActivityPub, , or…
Did This Email Arrive In Your Inbox?
So uhh...hi. I hope you're not just reading this on my website, through ActivityPub, , or RSS, but also in your email clients. Because here's the thing. Ideally, this post was sent as a newsl…