Archive

2026 29

• Aug 29 One door in front of every model you self-host
• Jun 23 Cedar vs OPA: which policy engine, where it fits, and who owns you afterward
• Jun 13 Bedrock in 2026: where AWS owns your agents, and where the open protocols save you
• Jun 11 DiffusionGemma: Google ships a text diffusion model and bets the future of local LLMs isn't autoregressive
• Jun 10 Claude Fable 5 went 30/30 on a benchmark built to break it. Opus 4.8 didn't.
• Jun 8 Gemma 4 QAT vs non-QAT: is quantization-aware training actually better?
• Jun 2 Opus 4.8 vs 4.7: does it actually push back more — and what does that cost in tokens?
• Apr 29 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: one model that sees, hears, reads, and clicks
• Apr 24 Checkmarx KICS got compromised — the irony writes itself
• Apr 23 tamtam, five days later — self-improving agents, a CTO in a textarea, and a release pipeline that closes its own PRs
• Apr 22 terraformer is archived — what now
• Apr 21 OpenShift is Kubernetes, except when it isn't — notes after touching it again
• Apr 19 kubernetes networking - how it actually works
• Apr 17 tamtam — apps that write themselves, and the part of me that's fine with that
• Apr 16 Opus 4.6 vs 4.7: both scored 30/30 — both are good?
• Apr 13 seo-tools — how I keep analytics and SEO across multiple sites from becoming a second job
• Apr 12 Claude Mythos: the AI that hacked every OS and emailed a researcher about it
• Apr 11 Gemma 4 tested locally: the E4B is solid — but it's not what the hype is about
• Apr 10 Agentic workflows for DevOps: what actually works and what will burn you
• Apr 9 The four golden signals — what I actually monitor and why
• Apr 8 filmpick — a movie recommender with nothing to sell you
• Apr 6 Overhauling a Jekyll blog — dark mode, code blocks, and all the small things
• Apr 5 qubitcoin — a post-quantum Bitcoin rewrite, and why silent RPC failures matter
• Mar 30 x402 - HTTP payments that actually work
• Mar 29 mcp-http-tools - any HTTP API as an MCP tool, zero code
• Mar 28 macosx-audit - know what's running on your Mac
• Mar 26 bioenv - Touch ID for your environment variables
• Feb 12 Self-hosted GitHub Actions runners — setup, gotchas, and when it's worth it
• Jan 20 Self-hosting Supabase on a VPS — what you actually need

2025 5

• Aug 10 SQLite as the production database — when it's actually fine
• Jul 10 Spot instances on EKS — cutting costs without cutting reliability
• May 30 React 19 + Vite — what changed from the webpack days
• Apr 14 Upgrading EKS across four environments — the rolling strategy
• Feb 18 Migrating from ethers.js to viem — what broke and what got better

2024 2

• Aug 22 Fail2ban and firewall hardening on a public-facing VPS
• Mar 18 Loki + Promtail for log aggregation on a budget

2023 3

• Dec 5 First smart contract on Base — what surprised me
• Sep 25 Ansible for a single server — overkill or exactly right?
• Apr 12 Deploying with PM2 — why I stopped using Docker for Node.js apps

2022 2

• Sep 20 Running Prometheus + Grafana on a single VPS
• Mar 15 SSH config tricks I wish I knew years ago

2021 2

• Nov 8 Terraform state management — best practices I follow religiously
• Jun 15 GitHub Actions replacing Jenkins — what actually got better

2020 9

• May 17 Mirkotik router backup with SSH and SFTP
• May 9 Sentry 9 - fix for PagerDuty legacy integration.
• Mar 14 Migration to Google Cloud Dns from different provider.
• Mar 9 Mass file renaming containing nonASCII characters to ASCII
• Feb 26 Infrastructure continuous deployment with terraform and atlantis
• Feb 22 Free git repository for private projects - GitHub vs GitLab vs BitBucket
• Feb 15 Fighting Google Analytics bounce rate
• Feb 8 Jekyll upgrade to version 4.0.0 with theme change
• Feb 7 Prometheus on ECS - Proof of Concept

2019 3

• Oct 28 Terragrunt upgrade to terraform 0.12
• Aug 30 How to run cheap Kubernetes cluster on AWS? pt1
• Aug 26 Updating this blog

2017 1

• Mar 1 How traceroute works

2015 4

• Apr 2 Service Discovery with mesos-dns
• Mar 28 Cassandra on Marathon
• Jan 15 SSH tunneling classics
• Jan 10 Hello world and Dell Latitude E5440 configuration