Return Visits: Asia Market, the One I Was Not Going to Tell You About
A Thai and Lao kitchen inside a grocery store on North Main in Houston. I have eaten there for years and never posted a word about it, and I am still not sure I should be.
Writing
Field notes
Things we learned by building them: implementation details, operating decisions and the occasional idea that refused to stay small.
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A Sky API Built for One Sentence
How an accessible star-field description became a privacy-aware public astronomy API with shared browser/server code, real HTTP caching, and honest limits.
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Return Visits: Henderson & Kane, Since the First Week
A general store with a smoker in Houston's Old Sixth Ward. I have been eating there since the week it opened in 2018, and I have had three favorite orders here.
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Smaller Images, Same Story: AVIF, WebP and the Picture Element
A practical benchmark of image dimensions, AVIF, WebP, responsive pictures, and the modern build pipeline that makes the extra formats worth using.
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Return Visits: The Best Latte Near Houston Is in Galveston
Red Light Coffee Roasters and Maceo Spice & Import share a block of Market Street in Galveston. Six years of photos say I keep going back, so this is where the series starts.
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nginx Done Right—Well, How I Like It
Twenty years with nginx, from a Linode VPS to a tested agreement among the web server, operating system, deployment process, and application.
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Why I Use Unix-Domain Sockets Behind nginx
Why a same-host Node.js application belongs on a filesystem socket: fewer exposed ports, precise access control, measurable speed, and honest limits.
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The Node.js Website That Cannot Reach the Internet
How a small Node.js site uses a Unix socket, systemd sandboxing and SELinux to make network and filesystem access impossible by default.
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FOX 2.0 ATS Steering Stabilizer: A 10,000-Mile Grenadier Review
A one-year review of the FOX Race Series 2.0 ATS steering stabilizer after 10,000 miles on a 2024 INEOS Grenadier Trialmaster.