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Design Constraints as Art: Maximizing Your AWS Free Tier

1d ago · 17 min read · There'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 optimal

Infisical is Great, Actually

Mar 27 · 6 min read · I 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 scanni

Self-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of Failure

Mar 27 · 6 min read · 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. The premise is compelling: you have a VM, you

I Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)

Mar 26 · 5 min read · 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 y

Containers, The Wrong Way: Lessons Learnt

Mar 25 · 6 min read · This is a follow-up of "Containers, The Wrong Way, For Always-Free Fun and Profit" In my last post, I told you all a wild idea: stop caring about the host OS of your EC2/VM. Take the OS hostage. Make