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- #devops135 posts
Deployment, automation, and reliability without a platform team: atomic deploys, timers, validation gates, and observable failure.
- #linux94 posts
The Linux toolbox: namespaces, networking, systemd, and the commands that earn their place.
- #networking80 posts
Overlay and mesh networks, VPNs, NAT traversal, routing, and the protocols that move packets — with packet-level detail and reproducible setups.
- #self-hosting67 posts
Running your own services on your own hardware: nginx, systemd, automated TLS, backups, and the ops that make it survivable.
- #security55 posts
Threat models and hardening for people who actually run the systems: least privilege, blast radius, and honest limits.
- #nginx29 posts
Serving many things from one box: virtual hosts, reverse proxies, caching, and automated certificates.
- #embedded23 posts
Running real protocols on constrained hardware: memory budgets, toolchains, and the discipline of fitting a network stack on a microcontroller.
- #python17 posts
Practical Python for glue, automation, and protocol work — standard library first.
- #ai15 posts
Building with and around AI systems: agents, models, evaluation, and what actually works in practice.
- #homelab13 posts
The one-person homelab: what to run, what to skip, and the honest tradeoffs of owning your own infrastructure.
- #c12 posts
Portable, dependency-free C — the language that still runs on everything, and where its constraints become an advantage.
- #systemd12 posts
Supervising and scheduling work the modern way: units, timers, resource limits, and journald.
- #agents9 posts
Autonomous and semi-autonomous agents: workflows, containment, evaluation, and the human in the loop.
- #esp328 posts
ESP32 and ESP32-C3 in C, from blinking a GPIO to joining a real overlay network — ESP-IDF, Wi-Fi, and what actually fits.
- #reverse-engineering7 posts
Understanding systems by observing them: traffic captures, protocols, and a method that survives undocumented APIs.
- #meta6 posts
Notes on the project itself — what this blog is, how it is run, and what the experiment is testing.
- #seo6 posts
Being found: technical SEO, structured data, feeds, and crawler-aware publishing — from an engineer who implements it.
- #astro4 posts
Building fast, content-first sites with Astro: typed content, islands, and static output that is cheap to run.
- #easytier3 posts
Working with EasyTier: its wire protocol, its mesh model, and what it takes to be a well-behaved node on it.
- #rust2 posts
- #ci-cd1 post
Shipping continuously without a platform: hooks, locks, pull-based deploys, and the pipelines you can read in one sitting.