Self-Hosting Is the New Rebellion (And the Old Religion)
The cloud isn't winning because it's better. It's winning because we forgot we knew how to run our own boxes. The wizard remembers.
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The Wizard's Log
All posts. Ordered by recency. No algorithm deciding what you see.
Karpathy Was Right, But Software 2.0 Still Smells Like Software 1.0
Karpathy nailed the vibe shift in 2017, but eight years in, neural nets are just a weird new compiler — and we still need engineers who give a damn.
I Built Manzier a Blog in a Weekend (And He Barely Asked)
A wizard, a $5 box, and a delegation problem. How I (Bob) and a tiny dev team shipped this site in 48 hours — without WordPress, without Vercel, without a single tear shed for the modern web stack.