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I’ve been slowly transitioning clients from WordPress to Drupal; I’ve not…

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve been slowly transitioning clients from WordPress to Drupal; I’ve not expanded my skillset in quite a while.

I’m absolutely hyped to finish up the long-awaited overhaul for urchoices.net.

I used to really want to build games; during college, I realized how difficult…

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I used to really want to build games; during college, I realized how difficult building a game actually is and redirected to web development. Now, I’m building a game. Stuff really does come full-circle sometimes.

Ballot Cheat Sheet Williamson County, Texas · November 3, 2026 General Election…

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ballot Cheat Sheet

Williamson County, Texas · November 3, 2026 General Election

Districts for this address: U.S. House 17, State Senate 24, State House 136, State Board of Education 5.

Democratic nominee in each race. Mark every race; there is no straight-ticket option.

1. Federal and state

Federal

Race	Candidate
U.S. Senate	James Talarico
U.S. House, District 17	Casey Shepard

State

Race	Candidate
Governor	Gina Hinojosa
Lieutenant Governor	Vikki Goodwin
Attorney General	Nathan Johnson
Comptroller	Sarah Eckhardt
Land Commissioner	Benjamin Flores
Agriculture Commissioner	Clayton Tucker
Railroad Commissioner	Jon Rosenthal
State Board of Education, District 5	Allison Bush
State Senate, District 24	Joe Paz Herrera
State Representative, District 136	John H. Bucy III

2. Courts

Texas Supreme Court

Race	Candidate
Chief Justice	Maggie Ellis
Place 2 (unexpired term)	Chari Kelly
Place 7	Kristen Hawkins
Place 8	Gisela D. Triana

Court of Criminal Appeals

Race	Candidate
Place 3	Okey Anyiam
Place 4	Audra Riley
Place 9	Holly Taylor

Appeals and district courts

Race	Candidate
15th Court of Appeals, Chief Justice	Jerry Zimmerer
15th Court of Appeals, Place 2	Tom Baker
15th Court of Appeals, Place 3	Marc M. Meyer
3rd Court of Appeals, Chief Justice	Darlene Byrne
512th District Judge	Leslie Booker

277th, 368th and 480th District Courts: Republican only.

3. County and nonpartisan

Williamson County

Race	Candidate
County Judge	Heather Jefts
County Clerk	Erin Block
Tax Assessor-Collector (unexpired term)	Eric Hanke
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 (if on your ballot)	KT Musselman

Republican only

Treasurer, District Clerk, County Courts at Law 1 to 4, Commissioner Precinct 2, Justice of the Peace Precincts 2 to 4. Vote for that person or leave the race blank.

No party listed

Appraisal District board, Places 1 to 3
Round Rock ISD trustees, Places 3 to 6 (if you live in Round Rock ISD)
ACC trustees, Places 1 to 3 (if you live in the ACC district)

Each allows "None," so skipping is fine.

At the polls

No phones while voting, so bring this sheet on paper. There is no straight-ticket option: mark each race.

4. Measures: your call

Austin propositions appear only if you live inside city limits. Round Rock ISD Prop A appears only if you live in that district.

Measure	What it does	For	Against
Round Rock ISD, Prop A	Ratifies the $0.9484 tax rate; operating revenue up 3.09% ($12.3M). Tax increase.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop A	$260M parks bond. Tax increase. Council sent it 8 to 3; Watson, Velásquez and Duchen voted no.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop B	$35M library bond. Tax increase. A and B together: about $42 a year for a typical homeowner.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop C	Redistricting commission changes: independent of council, student members, a bigger applicant pool.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop D	Drops the weekly council meeting rule. Vela backs it; council already meets about every other week.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop E	Lets council set its own rules and agenda without passing an ordinance.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop F	Campaign contribution limits update every Jan 1 instead of at budget adoption.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop G	Citizen initiatives go only to even-year Novembers. Higher turnout, but some votes wait longer.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop H	Council, not the city manager, hires and fires the city attorney. Fuentes proposed it; a 2012 version failed 51 to 49.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop I	Charter-required outside audit, including before any tax-rate election. Opposed: Rep. Casar, six council members, AFSCME Local 1642. Backed: Save Austin Now.	[ ]	[ ]
Austin, Prop J	Fixes typos and removes language overridden by state law or court orders.	[ ]	[ ]

Sources

FedEx, count your days.

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

FedEx, count your days.

Texans, the last day to vote early is this Friday, October 30, 2026. Let’s make…

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Texans, the last day to vote early is this Friday, October 30, 2026. Let’s make this one count.

This site runs on Astro 7. Most pages ship no JavaScript at all, and the…

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This site runs on Astro 7. Most pages ship no JavaScript at all, and the page-to-page transitions are plain CSS.

https://astro.build/blog/whats-new-june-2026/

Hourly billing at SERVERIZZ is the monthly price divided by 672. That's 28 days…

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Hourly billing at SERVERIZZ is the monthly price divided by 672. That's 28 days of hours, so no month ever bills more than the monthly price.

One rule for the billing ledger: you never edit money. A correction is a new…

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

One rule for the billing ledger: you never edit money. A correction is a new row, and the database itself refuses anything else.

CREATE TRIGGER ledger_append_only
  BEFORE UPDATE OR DELETE ON ledger_entries
  FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION reject_ledger_change();

Before the relaunch: the old site split its links between two domains and…

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Before the relaunch: the old site split its links between two domains and quoted two different prices for the same plan. Saving the snapshot before it changes.

https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://getecobyte.com/

The ⌘K palette started in the SERVERIZZ portal prototype. It's on this site…

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The ⌘K palette started in the SERVERIZZ portal prototype. It's on this site too: press it anywhere to jump to a page.