Cloud Engineering

Let’s be real: The golden age of “easy” solar ROI is fading. With the federal tax credits stepping down, the math for new buyers is harder than it was a few years ago. If you are going to spend tens of thousands of dollars bolting infrastructure to your house in this new environment, you cannot afford to buy a science project. You need an appliance. When I decided to take my home partially off-grid, I ran the numbers on everything—from DIY server-rack batteries to Tesla Powerwalls. I ended up choosing Enphase, specifically their new IQ Battery 5P system. ...

Yesterday, I took down my entire production site with a single character. I was writing a new financial article titled “The 100k Illusion”. I wanted to be punchy, so I added quotes to the title. I committed the file, pushed to GitHub, and waited for the green checkmark. Instead, I got this: ERROR error building site: failed to process "/wealth/marginal-vs-effective/index.html": expected comma character or an array or object ending on line 70 and column 40 The build failed. The site didn’t update. And the error message was pointing to a line of code that didn’t exist in my markdown file. ...