Posts

1. building this site in go 2026-10-18

   This site is a Go program. Not a Hugo/11ty/Astro setup, not a framework — a few hundred lines of Go that reads markdown, renders it to HTML with goldmark ,…

2. canary everything 2026-10-18

   The most valuable infrastructure change I made this year wasn't a tool — it was a testing philosophy: the canary is a full, real install, run in a disposable…

3. choosing a control plane 2026-10-18

   Every self-hosted setup has a control plane — the thing that decides what runs where, when, and how. The surprising part is that there's no single right…

4. package mirror generations 2026-10-18

   A local package mirror sounds like the safest thing in your homelab — it's just files, right? It's not. A mirror is a system with a trust model, a versioning…