Development
Astro is Great, Actually
I added a blog to my portfolio site. Astro got out of the way entirely. That's rarer than it sounds.
Design Constraints as Art: Maximizing Your AWS Free Tier
AWS has a free tier. It is weirder, more generous, and more dangerous than you think. Three years of building Lambda backends taught me how to make it sing.
Infisical is Great, Actually
After looking at SOPS, Parameter Store, Vault: Infisical might be the homelabber's best friend.
Self-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of Failure
Homelabbing is genuinely fun. I want to say that upfront, before I tell you about the time I locked myself out of my own infrastructure for an afternoon.
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?