By Michael McGarrah ·
14 min read
The design is done. Time to build it. This post covers the complete implementation — repo creation, DNS configuration, the final GitHub Actions workflow, Staticrypt testing results, and every edge case I hit along the way.
By Michael McGarrah ·
10 min read
Software development succeeds 4 out of 5 times. Data science succeeds 1 out of 5. That difference is not a quality problem — it is a fundamental difference in the nature of the work. DS follows the academic research model: hypothesis, experiment, documented failure, iterate.
By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
With the options narrowed down to a separate GitHub repo with Staticrypt, I started designing the actual implementation. That's when the interesting problems showed up — Giscus feedback, Staticrypt navigation quirks, leaky RSS feeds, and the question of whether a password even matters when the source is public.
By Michael McGarrah ·
9 min read
With several domains approaching renewal at SquareSpace, I pushed through the remaining transfers in a rush week. Fifteen of sixteen domains now live at Porkbun — only mcgarrah.org remains, deliberately held back until I have a proper weekend to migrate its 25+ DNS records without breaking production services.
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