Posts
I Accidentally Invented a Search Term
My first dev post blew up. Great! A term that didn't exist became the definition because I put two words together. AI summaries is doing something new (and slightly alarming) to search.
Infisical is Great, Actually
HashiCorp Nomad is designed for hundreds of nodes across multiple datacenters. I run it on my gaming PC. Cluster of one. It's great.
Self-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of Failure
Full GitOps means secrets can't go in the repo. So I looked at SOPS, GitHub Actions Secrets, AWS, OCI Vault, Doppler. All of them had the wrong answer.
I Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)
HashiCorp Nomad is designed for hundreds of nodes across multiple datacenters. I run it on my gaming PC. Cluster of one. It's great.
Containers, The Wrong Way: Lessons Learnt
"One container for the whole machine" is just a VM with extra steps. A week later: the steward container pattern. A thin Alpine image that orchestrates MORE containers. Don't extend scratch images — use them.
Containers, The Wrong Way, For Always-Free Fun and Profit
Why running K3s "the wrong way" gives you versioned, testable infrastructure that Ansible never could.
Thinking Differently About Universal Microkernels
What if your kernel could sandbox drivers without hardware isolation, and your binaries got faster every time you upgraded your CPU?