Before the sound card loaded, one tiny speaker communicated entirely through judgmental beeps.

90s Kid - The PC Speaker Beep

Before the sound card loaded, one tiny speaker communicated entirely through judgmental beeps.

September 28, 2026 · 3 min · 542 words · Justin
An experienced IT technician working with two AI assistants named Orion and Leo

The Tools Got Smaller. The Reach Got Bigger.

I used to carry Windows, drivers, and half a repair shop in a giant CD binder. Now I talk to my phone and the computers do the walking.

September 28, 2026 · 5 min · 903 words · Justin
Your computer called another computer that might allow exactly one visitor at a time.

90s Kid - Calling the BBS

Your computer called another computer that might allow exactly one visitor at a time.

September 27, 2026 · 3 min · 580 words · Justin
Isometric pixel-art workshop at night with two robots and a man at a wall of monitors

One Month, Two AI Robots: What Claude and ChatGPT Built for Me

From August 27 to September 26 I ran my IT business and my house with two AI coding agents. They logged 2,197 sessions and 136,476 tool actions and shipped 65 projects. Here’s the whole month, straight from the logs.

September 26, 2026 · 2 min · 284 words · Justin
The host leans back with a coffee while glowing lines run from two docked phones out the window to a small robot on a cloud.

I Handed My AI the Keys to My Android Phones

How Claude and I set up remote ADB over Tailscale that survives every reboot, so my AI can fix settings, clean up notifications and push app updates to my phones from anywhere. Plus the traps we fell into on the way.

September 26, 2026 · 8 min · 1606 words · Justin
You typed a full polite question into the internet and received twelve unrelated fan pages.

90s Kid - Asking the Search Portal

You typed a full polite question into the internet and received twelve unrelated fan pages.

September 26, 2026 · 3 min · 495 words · Justin
The website had no comments section, so strangers wrote in a public digital wedding book.

90s Kid - Sign My Guestbook

The website had no comments section, so strangers wrote in a public digital wedding book.

September 25, 2026 · 4 min · 711 words · Justin
Before algorithms, websites held hands and passed you to the next person who loved the same obscure thing.

90s Kid - The Webring

Before algorithms, websites held hands and passed you to the next person who loved the same obscure thing.

September 24, 2026 · 3 min · 556 words · Justin
The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.

90s Kid - The Under Construction Page

The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 574 words · Justin
A tall solar camera tower with a stylized B on its panel and cameras stacked down the mast

The Pole Camera Field Guide

Plate readers, average-speed towers, gunshot sensors, surveillance trailers and a flood station in the mountains. Twelve kinds of unattended cameras, how to tell them apart, and what each one actually watches.

September 23, 2026 · 11 min · 2193 words · Justin