https://joemc.xyz/posts/2026/ Recent content in 2026 on 👋 Hi! Hugo en-us Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:00 -0600 https://joemc.xyz/posts/building-at-the-speed-of-thought/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:00 -0600 https://joemc.xyz/posts/building-at-the-speed-of-thought/ <p>I took my first college programming class in 2007, and had been dabbling with programming long before that.</p> <p>As I was learning the ins and outs of Visual Basic (lol), it was impossible to imagine the changes that would come to the technology landscape in a relatively short time. A year later I was learning Objective-C to write apps for the new iPhone, and eighteen years later I&rsquo;m using an iPhone from 30k feet to instruct an LLM coding agent on my desk at home to fix a visual bug in an app I&rsquo;m working on.</p> https://joemc.xyz/posts/im-being-evicted/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0600 https://joemc.xyz/posts/im-being-evicted/ <p>I&rsquo;ve made josephmclaughl.in my home on the internet for over ten years, hosting many iterations of my blog and personal website there.</p> <p>This year, I received an email letting me know that, in order to comply with <a href="https://support.enom.com/support/solutions/articles/201000120141-nixi-in-domains-compliance-registrant-verification-process">new regulations imposed by India</a>, I&rsquo;d need to provide documentation proving my (or my website&rsquo;s) relationship to India if I wanted to keep the domain.</p>