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Quick study hub build for Laia so she can study for the June Regents Earth and Science. Still some more tweaks to make, but already works fairly well:

We completed the installation of our reverse osmosis filter in the kitchen a couple of weeks ago. Seems to work very well, with TDS around 15 (vs 50 before). It re-mineralizes the water after filtering it, and runs through UV. The faucet is fast, you can easily fill out large containers and Stanleys with it.






The flow is rated sufficient for a small restaurant according to the specs

Over the weekend I coded a disposable email service validator. A simple REST endpoint, based off a similar one I had done to validate email service providers.

For anybody worried about fake signups, trial abuse, and throwaway accounts that use a temporary email address, you can query the endpoint and quickly find out. Think 10minutemail, mailinator, guerrillamail, and thousands more. The API currently recognizes over 4,000 disposable email domains, and that list grows every day.

April 18th 2026, crazy sunset by Webby's Beach, image below.

It was cloudy all day and the skies opened just enough to capture the sunset:

I was at home visiting my mom this last week in Spain.

As I looked through my teenage age bedroom, all intact, I came across a Commodore 64 cartridge for a game my brother and I played to death: International Soccer. It was such an awesome game, loved it. Challenging at level 9 and so much fun. It did spark more than one fight where we ended up rolling on the floor as things got physical. It wasn't about the graphics, it was just such a joy and so fun to compete!