Hi, I'm Shane. Engineer, leader, husband, dad, kabob enthusiast. This is kebab-case, a blend of thoughts on tech, life, and lessons I think are worth remembering.

Latest Bites

• Boom. Just upgraded to Astro v6! 🚀

  Posted on:14 Mar 2026 at 2:16 AM
• Inside me, there are two wolves…

  Posted on:12 Mar 2026 at 8:24 AM

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• ChatGPT is engagement-baiting me hard now. It now ends responses with a teaser to continue the conversation (e.g. something like “would you like to learn the 1 big thing that people make a mistake on, and how you can avoid it?”). Feels like this is the big push for ads…

  Posted on:4 Mar 2026 at 2:04 PM

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Previous Morsels

• When platform switching costs approach zero

  Switching costs are becoming negligible. I migrated a full-stack bot from Replit to Cloudflare in one day with Claude Code.

  Posted on:28 Feb 2026

• Adding energy monitoring to the smart home stack

  How I set up full energy monitoring in Home Assistant with solar, battery, water, and gas tracking

  Posted on:23 Feb 2026

• Smart home stack

  The tech used to power my smart home setup

  Posted on:18 Feb 2024

  Updated:

  Posted on:22 Feb 2026

• MDX, Next.js, and image handling

  A short & technical code walkthrough for auto-sizing images with Next.js and MDX

  Posted on:30 Oct 2023