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Hero Kids: Running a DND-Style Game for Young Players
Tried running Hero Kids with the family. It's a lot of fun, but you have to throw out any attachment to a rigid script and let the kids steer. Loose story, ad-lib everything, and enjoy the chaos.
Musical Instruments: Fun (Noisy) Times Ahead
We took the kids to Guitar Center, dug out the old trumpet and keyboard from storage, and now we're looking into lessons. The house is about to get significantly louder, and I'm genuinely looking forward to it.
Building a Bartop Arcade Cabinet: A Pandemic Project Revisited
I was digging through old photos and found the progress shots from my bartop arcade cabinet build. A pandemic project from early 2021 that I never properly documented here. Time to fix that.
The Homelab as Creative Outlet: Why I Keep Building Things Nobody Asked For
The homelab isn't about saving money on cloud hosting. It's about having a space where I can build, break, and iterate without a ticket, a timeline, or a stakeholder.
Keep Your Hobbies Unmonetized
The moment you start thinking about ROI on a hobby, you've turned something you love into something you owe. I've watched it happen with photography, copywriting, and smoking meat, and the pattern is always the same.
Minecraft, Hackathons, and the Case for Unstructured Creativity
My kid builds redstone contraptions with no spec and no deadline. My engineers build their best prototypes under the same conditions. The pattern isn't a coincidence.