The Skewer

Switching costs are becoming negligible. I migrated a full-stack bot from Replit to Cloudflare in one day with Claude Code.

How I set up full energy monitoring in Home Assistant with solar, battery, water, and gas tracking

The tech used to power my smart home setup

A short & technical code walkthrough for auto-sizing images with Next.js and MDX

Why we should consider building a new product or feature as a last resort.

Delving into my experience using the Bluesky API to migrate a Twitter/Mastodon bot, and the challenges I encountered.

Incremental steps can lead to large, innovative changes over time. I share some thoughts on embracing progress.

Why teams should reconsider any dogmatic adherance to Agile methodolgies, and what to do about it.

Thoughts and tips on removing distractions to focus on what's most important.

How I came to finally build this site, and what went into it.

A bit about the inspiration for name of the blog and the chosen spelling.