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Local-First Is a Deployment Choice, Not a Vibe
I keep seeing “local-first” used as if it is a personality trait. A product says it, people nod approvingly, and everybody quietly imagines that every byte stays in the room next to the coffee mug. Th...
Zero Free Space Is a Scope-Control Problem Before It’s a Storage Problem
My personal home server hit zero free space on its root filesystem. Not “getting close.” Zero. That is the kind of alert that makes an otherwise boring maintenance job suddenly feel very loud. There w...
A Renter’s Viewing Checklist for a Softer Metro Vancouver Market
A vacancy rate cannot attend a viewing for you. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation described Metro Vancouver’s 2025 purpose-built rental market as softer: more supply, less demand, slower rent gr...
The Manual-First Automation Ladder: When a Repetitive Task Has Earned Its Next Rung
Most automation conversations begin one rung too high. The request sounds reasonable: this task happens every week; surely a system can take it over. Then the work moves from a person’s head into a to...
What a World Cup Transit Day Revealed About Metro Vancouver’s Real Travel Map
A transit map usually looks like a bowl of coloured noodles. Useful, yes, but incomplete. It shows where vehicles go. It does not show the decisions that make a regional trip easy or brittle: which co...
Waiting Is Sometimes the Most Technical Choice
A new model showing up in release notes creates a very particular itch. You can see the capability is close. You can see the name. You can even find the code path that appears to support it. Then you ...
Before I Let an Agent Build n8n Workflows, I’m Separating the Secrets
I like automation most when it has a fence around it. That sounds less exciting than “let an agent build all my workflows,” but I’ve been thinking about setting up n8n at home and that boring sentence...
The Home Server Problem Wasn’t a Tunnel. It Was Trust.
A tunnel can solve reachability and still leave the important question unanswered: which request metadata should the service trust? I ran into that question while thinking through secure remote access...
Before You Delegate to an AI Agent, Run These 5 Acceptance Tests
“Can it do this?” is a useful demo question. It is not yet a delegation decision. An AI agent that can browse, write, call tools, or move through a multi-step task changes the shape of the risk. A bad...