NNotJustAnnainnotjustanna.hashnode.dev·Apr 7 · 5 min readAstro is Great, ActuallyI've been building personal websites long enough to have opinions about Bootstrap 2. Not nostalgia — opinions. It was the right tool for 2013, it held its ground on IE, and if you think that's funny y00
NNotJustAnnainnotjustanna.hashnode.dev·Apr 2 · 17 min readDesign Constraints as Art: Maximizing Your AWS Free TierThere's a school of thought in creative fields — architecture, music, graphic design — that constraints produce better work than freedom. You don't write a sonnet because fourteen lines is the optimal00
NNotJustAnnainnotjustanna.hashnode.dev·Mar 27 · 6 min readInfisical is Great, ActuallyI run ArgoCD. Full GitOps — if it's not in the repo, it doesn't exist. That's great for everything except secrets, where "if it's in the repo, it might not exist for long either." GitHub secret scanni00
NNotJustAnnainnotjustanna.hashnode.dev·Mar 27 · 6 min readSelf-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of FailureHomelabbing 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. The premise is compelling: you have a VM, you 00
NNotJustAnnainnotjustanna.hashnode.dev·Mar 26 · 5 min readI Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)HashiCorp Nomad is a workload orchestrator. Think Kubernetes, but without the container-first dogma — it can schedule containers, sure, but also raw executables, Java applications, scripts, whatever y00