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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!

Interesting to see how some companies, Cloudflare in this case, are trying to outrun the competition by creating software via AI at lightning speeds.

Cloudflare has, apparently, created a modern, secure version of WordPress - which is 20+ years old and has a history of problems with securing plugins. They call it EmDash CMS. Will be interesting to see how far it goes. Created entirely in TypeScript and with a new security model, they claim it solves all the legacy problems WordPress had, and it's under the MIT fully OpenSource model.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/