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• The Curse of Tinkering
  10/15/2025

  Tinkering often starts from a good place. You spot a small improvement, open your editor, and make a change that should only take a few minutes. Then the hours slip away. You finish with something far more complicated than what you began with. My last version of this blog followed that pattern. It started as a simple EC2 deployment, but soon grew into a full stack of ECS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. What was meant to be a light personal site became an experiment in infrastructure design. I le...