Life, mostly outside.

We’re usually outside or on the go. I build small things when something gets in the way. Somewhere in there, technology became fun again.

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Gulf coast shoreline and pier stretching into calm water, seen from the air — Gulf coast · Naples

A good place to start

I text a number in Messages and a Mac Mini answers like a capable friend.

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I Retired the Bell Router at the Cottage

The new place in cottage country has 2.5-gigabit symmetric fibre — and a Bell router with no bridge mode. Two routers made a double NAT. The double NAT made Tailscale fall back to relay servers. The fix was a fiber modem the size of a stick of gum.

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A couple worth keeping.

Small evidence that we do occasionally leave the house.

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Things that run quietly.

I run a few businesses and a house with too many devices. I build small systems so neither needs me every five minutes. Where the tinkering pays rent

time zones: 3
self-healing: 2am
server named Randy: 1

The end of the dock

There’s usually room for one more chair.

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