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Writes about software, gardens, bread and reading. This is the demo site for the Ieum theme.
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Infra/Kubernetes
My First Kubernetes Rollout, What I Wish I'd Known
These are old notes from my first real Kubernetes deploy. Some of it holds up. Some of it I'd do very differently now.
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Reading/Papers
A Year of Reading 3/3: What a Paper on Interleaving Taught Me
Closing the reading log with a research paper, not a book — and the study habit I've actually changed because of it.
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Infra/Docker
Multi-Stage Docker Builds for a Leaner Node Image
Our production image was 1.4GB and rebuilt from scratch on every dependency change. Multi-stage builds fixed both problems at once.
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Tools/Git
Git Worktrees Changed How I Review PRs
I used to stash my work, check out a branch to review it, then unstash and hope nothing broke. Worktrees ended that entire dance.
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Essays/Life
Slow Letters in a Fast Inbox
I started writing an old friend actual letters instead of messages. The three-week delay turned out to be a feature, not a bug.
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Backend/Node.js
Debugging a Node.js Memory Leak in Production
The process crashed once a week, always in the middle of the night. Here's how I found the leak with heap snapshots instead of guessing.
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Frontend/CSS
Container Queries Finally Fixed My Card Grid
The same card component lives in a sidebar, a full-width grid, and a modal. Media queries couldn't handle that. Container queries can.
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Ghost/Themes
Building a Table of Contents for a Ghost Theme
A table of contents needs two things done right — an accurate heading list, and knowing which section is currently in view. Here's how I built both.
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AI/Agents
Building a Small Agent Loop with Tool Calling
Before reaching for an agent framework, I built the loop by hand in about eighty lines. It made every abstraction the frameworks provide obvious.
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Reading/Books
A Year of Reading 2/3: The Unhurried Mind
Second in the reading log: a book that argues boredom is a skill, and the one idea from it I actually kept.