Comic: the host in a headset at 3 AM surrounded by glowing monitors and cold coffee, while a small robot plugs a glowing cable into a tiny server. He asks WE'RE A PHONE COMPANY NOW?

We Built a Phone Company in One Night

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 02 · THE PRACTICE RIGRule one of moving something important: build the new house before you move out of the old one. Don’t practice on the real number Porting a phone number is a one-way door. Once my number left Google Voice, there was no clicking “undo” if the new setup couldn’t ring my phone. So the plan was to build everything on a new number first, live with it, and only move my real number once the new system had proven itself. ...

October 2, 2026 · 3 min · 633 words · Justin

The TLS Cert Only an API Could Renew

A FreePBX user panel served an expired TLS cert, every reload swore it was fixed, and the only thing that actually moved the needle was calling the cert module’s own regeneration API.

June 9, 2026 · 4 min · 772 words · Justin