Monthly Meanderings: September 2026

Where has the year gone? How is it October already? Although I’m actually writing this in September, so it isn’t. But the point still stands, I think. Man, I’m getting good at these intros. They just flow right off the page, right? … Right? Website updates A couple of new posts appeared in September. Lego, ACME DNS-01, and negatively-cached surprises is a rather snappily titled post about debugging an issue a friend had with Centauri, my reverse proxy. Turns out a combination of default settings in the Lego library and the perfectly reasonable behaviour of systemd-resolved makes for a bad time. Maybe that should have had a spoiler warning. Then in the expanding scope of coding agents I talk a bit about how my use of LLMs for coding has evolved, and how I “vibed” a perfect-for-me music player with a single, short prompt. It’s a spiritual successor to an app can be a ready meal from last year. Now the microwave is even easier to operate. Or operates on bigger ready meals? It’s a good…