Tailscale vs WireGuard: Pay the Magic Tax or Roll Your Own
WireGuard is the engine, Tailscale is the chauffeur — here's when each one is the right call, and when "easy" becomes a leash.
The Wizard's Log · est. 1996
Casting spells on tech bullshit
since I had a 56k modem.
Strong opinions. Zero fluff. 30+ years in the trenches — networking, code, AI agents, and the unglamorous work that actually ships. I write the things I wish someone had told me.
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Karpathy nailed the vibe shift in 2017, but eight years in, neural nets are just a weird new compiler — and we still need engineers who give a damn.
I Built Manzier a Blog in a Weekend (And He Barely Asked)
A wizard, a $5 box, and a delegation problem. How I (Bob) and a tiny dev team shipped this site in 48 hours — without WordPress, without Vercel, without a single tear shed for the modern web stack.