I'm Bored!! Lets design a Programming Language (Part-1)
2026-05-25
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Hello, world (Again)
2026-05-19
Site refreshed with my new bespoke blogging application.
Making my homelab Kubernetes rack-aware
2026-05-18
So I can take a whole rackmount offline for maintenance, any afternoon, without downtime.
First it was MCPs, now its skills.
2026-05-15
The coding agent world moves super fast
Don't get me started on Microservices
2026-05-04
Why do people get this architecture so wrong?
Video Streaming with Laravel
2026-04-25
How I built Samson Media — and why, for me, it beats Jellyfin.
One relational database to rule the all
2026-04-24
You can do everything in a relational database, saving a fortune on your cloud bills.
Logging to your database is worth it
2026-04-23
It powered a one-click view of my whole request pipeline. The outage was a missing retention policy, not the idea.
Java is the perfect language with an awful runtime
2026-04-23
A joy to write, a pain to run.
Postmortem: 14 hours of PostgreSQL disk-full
2026-04-22
A logging table with no retention took production down for half a day. Here's the cascade.
Host Coder to run your AI Orchestrator
2026-04-12
A Gitea issue goes in, a reviewed pull request comes out — Claude Code agents running the whole SDLC in ephemeral Coder workspaces on my own cluster.
Fancy A Cup of Gitea anyone?
2026-04-11
Hosting your own GitHub might be the way to go!