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After fourteen years as a Google Doc, my resume has finally moved home—wired into my blog with a pipeline that enforces the quarterly update discipline I knew I should have had all along.

Two websites, two deaths, and what thirty years in electronic media finally made clear: nothing on the web is permanent — some things are merely kept.

I tried to log into Google on a company iPad. Two hours later I had rebuilt my account security from scratch. Here is why the average person never gets that far.

Part two of the Jackson, TN transmission saga: the Enterprise standoff, a lost license, the long solo drive home, and — at last — 'Habemus auto.'

A road trip to drop Katlyn off in Dallas turns into a transmission failure, a guitar store celebrity sighting, and two nights stranded in Jackson, TN.

From PostScript in 1985 to AI in 2026, a career spent learning sideways through successive waves of technological displacement — and what that pattern looks like now that the wave is everywhere at once.

A reflection on medical age bias, patient agency, and refusing to be diminished by demographic expectations — prompted by a fall on a running trail and the fall-risk bracelet that followed.

What running a marathon taught me about sustainable health—lessons from Icarus, pickle juice, and the difference between what you can do and what you should do.

How AI-assisted development made migrating a professional portfolio from Squarespace to Astro practical—documentation discipline, visual regression testing, and the new calculus of what's worth doing.

How AI tools transformed my blog from languishing Jekyll infrastructure to a modern Astro site—and made computing enjoyable again

How an AI-assisted sprint refreshed my decade-old Jekyll stack: asset vendoring, visual tests, workflow guardrails, and a renewed commitment to Minimal Mistakes.

Well, hello there, 2025. After years away, I rebuilt my Jekyll blog with GitHub Actions, CloudFront, and AI—streamlined publishing with modern tools and lessons learned.

A summary of my experience and learnings from attending DrupalCon 2022 in Portland

My presentation to DrupalCon 2022 on Duke's Code+ cocurricular project, which promotes undergraduate diversity, equity, and inclusion

Continuing my research on a static website workflow, I'm spinning up a new personal website as an excuse to try building...

“Sir, you better grab those shorts tightly, *no one wants them to drop*.” Thank you, captain O.

The Skrinaks adopt Holly from the Wake County SPCA

Another day in the life of Kyle Skrinak

My squatting calves, trembling and tiptoe, are eager to get me out of there. Karen and I agreed &mdash; my only option is for me to jump and for Karen to "catch" me.<br/><br/> The two adult men, across the street, continue to savor their evening’s spectacle.

When I was 8, I played alongside a lake, against a star-splattered night with my brother and sister.

I forget when in 1973 the Skrinak family house caught on fire. I’m guessing it was in late Spring, but that was so long ago.

The battle for a better static website generator

How we Adopted CI/CD for TCA&S's Drupal Multisite Hosting for Trinity's 100+ Drupal websites

Join me as I celebrate three years of low-carb living. At the three-year mark, it’s safe to say the yo-yo dieting has stopped.

My Eulogy for my Mom. October 31st, 2019, 11 AM, at St. Andrews Catholic Church, in Apex NC

Imagine asking an alcoholic; "Don't you miss alcohol?"

Why Windows and how I like my default Windows 10 configured

Busy staying steady

The Higher Ed Summit organizers had considerably redesigned the schedule and makeup of the summit. I say to a significan...

Low-carb living has given me the confidence to spend time and money on my professional appearance.

“Dad, can you pull your skin out, like a balloon?”

Asking about one common and simple ingredient can expose a restaurant

How stumbling into a morning routine became surprisingly transformative and motivational

When the evidence is scant, the policy is misleading and the result is inversely fantastic

Posts and logs from Kyle about food

For our Drupal @ Duke meetup, here are my top five take-aways from this year's DrupalCon Nashville.

Below is my list of videos to catch up on DrupalCon Nashville 2018. The first is the youtube embed of my public playlist...

* Biography, startup failures

* New in 8.5

* Converting vb-script site to a modern, responsive heterogeneous site with Drupal 8

I will be leading two sessions at the DrupalCon Higher Education Summit on Monday, April 8th, 2018, and I&rsquo;m using ...

Documentation on Drupal 8 multisite configuration based on code review of Drupal 8.3.2

See the <a href="https://security.duke.edu/">Duke University IT Security Office</a> for comprehensive security standards...

Here are my hastily-assembled thoughts on Drupal 8 for 2017 at Trinity Technology Services.

Here's an excellent article on using Vim for narrative writing, as opposed to technical documentation. I love the idea o...

Making static pages like Grandpa used to