Blog | Aaron Beebe

Shipping a $19 Product What it took to get The Actual Stack Kit from a zip file on my machine to a live Kit checkout and landing page for Budget Homelab.
Nov 1, 2026
My Niche Sites Have a Pull Request Problem, and That's on Purpose How I run seven niche sites with a day job and a family: automation everywhere, and nothing ships without a pull request I review.
Oct 29, 2026
Four of Us, Four Days, One Subway Card: Our NYC Trip Four days in NYC from East Tennessee: toll road confusion, a fraud-flagged subway card, Harry Styles, Wicked, dumplings, Woobles and two bagels.
Oct 29, 2026
How to fix Apple Books EPUBs that won't open anywhere else Apple Books unzips EPUBs on disk and never re-zips them properly on export. Here is how to repackage one by hand.
May 17, 2026
The Crawler Collection Two SCX24s, three TRX4ms, and a wife who enables the hobby.
Apr 13, 2026
The Mini-Z Garage A look at the Kyosho Mini-Z cars I'm currently running.
Apr 13, 2026
What's Running in My Homelab A tour of the servers, services, and questionable decisions that make up my home infrastructure.
Apr 13, 2026
Building tools with Claude code What it is like to build tools with Claude
Mar 22, 2026
Why Bearings Are the Best First Mini-Z Upgrade Swapping stock bushings for ceramic bearings is cheap, easy, and makes a real difference.
Mar 20, 2026