Prep time: 10 mins (+4 hr rest) | Cook time: ~50 mins | Yields: 4 servings Here is the recipe, right at the top where it belongs. No scrolling through my life story to find the temperature. The Hardware The Ingredients Instructions 1. The “Dry Brine” (The Secret Step) 2. The Prep 3. The Cook…

If you scroll back to the beginning of my chat logs from November 2025, you will see a man shouting at a cloud. I was trying to build a predictive model for the NBA. I was copy-pasting errors. I was calling the AI “useless.” I was getting hallucinations in return—made-up stats, broken formulas, and apology…

Before I started building directory websites like SoonerClassifieds or automating garage sales with Python, I had a much simpler, much more dangerous ambition: I wanted to predict the future. Specifically, I wanted to predict the outcome of Oklahoma City Thunder games. This project, which took place back in November, was effectively “Season 1” of my…

If SoonerClassifieds.com was a lesson in blunt-force trauma—me banging my head against CSS until the wall cracked—then OKGarageSales.com was supposed to be the refined follow-up. The jazz record to the previous punk rock album. I decided to spin up a second project. The goal? A dedicated portal for garage sales in Oklahoma City. It’s a…

We talk a lot about “Artificial Intelligence” replacing us. We talk about the Robot Overlords coming for our jobs, our creativity, and our purpose. But we rarely talk about what it’s actually like to get down in the mud and wrestle with one of these things to build something real. For the last few weeks,…