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The Migration I Should Have Done the First Time
A year ago I moved this blog to Astro and called it a fork. It wasn't one. Here's the confession, the do-over to AstroPaper 6, and how Claude Code made fixing it an evening instead of a weekend.
Deciding Where to Live Without Fooling Yourself
I built a system to plan a seasonal, rent-and-rotate life. The hard part was never the data. It was not letting the tool tell me what I wanted to hear.
The 79-Inch Test: How One Spec Killed Most of the Camper Van Market for Me
When the bed is too short, nothing else on the spec sheet matters. Reweighting the 2026 camper van field around a 79-inch bed length cutoff collapses the market to four platforms and surfaces Storyteller Overland as the unexpected answer.
The 2026 Camper Van Buyer's Guide: 14 Models, Honestly Ranked
A structured run at fourteen 2026 camper vans scored across 30 criteria and weighted seven different ways for seven buyer types. The Pleasure-Way Plateau TS sweeps the rankings, but that doesn't make it the right pick for you.
Where's the Best Summer Weather in America? I Made Four AIs Fight About It
I gave Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok the same prompt about ideal summer weather cities. After rebuttals and revisions, they converged on a surprising consensus.
The Case for Edge-Adjacent Tourism
A different kind of retirement: intermittent fasting for the soul. Not vanlife, not survivalism, but simulating scarcity inside abundance.
When Starships Clash and Souls Collide: A Chat with AI That Got Weirdly Deep
What a Star Wars vs. Battlestar Galactica showdown taught me about breaking free
Two Hours of FFmpeg vs Three Minutes of Adobe
Two hours of FFmpeg wizardry couldn't fix what Adobe Podcast Enhance solved in three minutes. Sometimes the best tool isn't the one you know best.