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🧠 What I'm Working On

  • Settling into my role at Reyes Holdings, focusing on data engineering and ETL development.
  • Continuing to develop Unum, a B2B SaaS platform for Church Management.
  • Maintaining and scaling KICE Cards—an e-commerce venture for my son built on WordPress and WooCommerce.
  • Refining my Substack, Principled Dissent, and documenting my homelab evolution via Wiki.js.

🛠️ What I'm Playing With

  • Optimizing my 10GbE network upgrade between Proxmox and Unraid to eliminate packet drops and bottlenecks.
  • Managing a high-performance Pterodactyl node on Unraid using NVMe storage for snappier Minecraft chunk loading.
  • Reclaiming terabytes of array space using Tdarr for H.264 to H.265 transcoding.
  • Building an ESP32-based IR blaster with ESPHome and experimenting with Home Assistant automations for presence-aware office control.

📖 What I'm Reading

  • Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

🎧 What I'm Enjoying

  • Podcasts: Part of the Problem, The Tom Woods Show, and Provoked.
  • Music: Spinning the new Prizefighter album by Mumford & Sons and toying with the idea of seeing Jimmy Eat World live this summer.
  • TV: Watching The Pitt and Paradise with Abby, and catching the new season of The Lincoln Lawyer on my own.
  • Sports: Geared up for a deep Duke tournament run and seeing the Phoenix Suns play the Celtics in Boston over Spring Break.

Last updated: February 27, 2026