https://polygeek.com/ Software, mostly. Other things, occasionally. en Thu, 07 May 2026 12:14:17 GMT https://polygeek.com/posts/hello-world.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-04-27-hello-world.md Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT First post on LogosPress — the static-first, AI-extensible blog engine I'm building to replace WordPress. https://polygeek.com/posts/software-industry-at-scale.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-04-22-the-software-industry-at-scale.md Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Forty years is enough time to watch patterns repeat. A few things I've noticed about how the industry changes — and how it doesn't. https://polygeek.com/posts/runpee-api-economy.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-04-15-runpee-and-the-api-economy.md Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Over seventeen years, almost every third-party dependency RunPee relies on has changed its terms, gotten acquired, raised prices, or died. A few lessons from that. https://polygeek.com/posts/the-book-stack.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-04-08-the-book-stack.md Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT I have more books than I'll ever read and I've stopped pretending that's a problem I need to solve. https://polygeek.com/posts/on-using-llms.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-03-22-on-using-llms.md Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A year of using AI coding tools seriously, by someone who was skeptical and is now something more complicated than a convert. https://polygeek.com/posts/static-site-architecture-why.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-03-18-static-site-architecture-why.md Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT WordPress runs forty percent of the web and I've been trying to get away from it for a decade. Here's the architectural case for the thing I'm building instead. https://polygeek.com/posts/meetings-as-code-review.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-03-12-meetings-as-code-review.md Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every six weeks or so I look at my recurring commitments the way I'd look at code that's accumulated over time — and I delete a lot of it. https://polygeek.com/posts/sqlite-in-production.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-03-05-sqlite-in-production.md Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT After years of reaching for Postgres by default, I ran a small production app on SQLite for six months. The main thing I learned is that I was wrong to be skeptical. https://polygeek.com/posts/the-solo-founder-tax.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-02-25-the-solo-founder-tax.md Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running a one-person business means every boring task is yours. The trick isn't eliminating the tax — it's deciding which parts you're actually willing to pay. https://polygeek.com/posts/one-alias-that-changed-my-day.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-02-18-one-alias-that-changed-my-day.md Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I added a two-line alias to my .bashrc six months ago and I think about it every morning. Productivity tips are usually overrated. This one wasn't. https://polygeek.com/posts/what-software-is-for.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-02-14-what-software-is-for.md Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT After forty years of writing code, I've landed on an answer that would have seemed too simple when I started — and probably still seems too simple. https://polygeek.com/posts/runpee-iphone-launch-day-2009.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-02-10-runpee-iphone-launch-day.md Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The App Store approval process was opaque and strange in 2009, and then CNN called, and then nothing was ever quite the same. https://polygeek.com/posts/tabs-vs-spaces-is-over.html https://polygeek.com/-/posts/2026-02-03-tabs-vs-spaces-is-over.md Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT We spent decades on holy wars that formatters now settle in milliseconds. I'm not sure if that's progress or just a different kind of defeat.