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`make` as a Static Site Generator

make as a Static Site Generator Static site generators are in fashion for good reasons. The resulting pages are easy to host, fast and extremely low on maintenance while being sufficient for many u...

Astro SSR is still on the way but I have it in production already

An early adoption of Astro's Server Side Rendering capabilities that actually succeeded very well. Here you can find out what I used!

How redis expires keys? A dive into how TTL works internally in Redis. 🌊

SQLite's web renaissance

I won’t call SQLite’s current moment a comeback, because the most used database engine in the world doesn’t have anything to come back from. I’m going with “renaissance”, because despite its alread...

You should be using RSS

Decide exactly what you want to read and escape the social media algorithms. How an old protocol called RSS can give you back the autonomy about what you read.

It’s BIG!

RealToughCandy.io brought me on to teach their Introduction to Algorithms course! AHHHH! That’s where I’ve been over the past couple months as it has sucked the lifeforce right out of me, lol! It w...

Consulting Everything

I wrote an Emacs package that lets you use Emacs to read results from Everything. Everything is kinda of like the windows version of locate. It’s a nice way to jump around the file system from the ...

Running With The Foxes

A short post sharing my feelings about the city.

My journey to a new SRE team

A few months ago, I became the Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Visma e-conomic. This new position is allowing me to work with brilliant people! In our industry, brilliant colleagues often h...

Honkin' on the Fly

Running honk on fly.io Update 2022–08–11: As with literally every update of mine, I’m no longer running honk on Fly. It’s way easier to simply run it on a server myself, behind nginx. Huh—who knew?...

YouTube Comment Spam and the Linking Non-Link

As somebody who quite often scrolls down to the comments section on YouTube (for my sins), I'm often faced with the innovative tactics that spammers use to get their comments through Google's autom...

Understanding the different kinds of keys used in databases

Serverless Transactional Outbox Pattern on AWS

How I implemented a transactional outbox pattern on AWS with serverless services

The Asus ROG Flow X13

My hunt for a new laptop has finally concluded I’ve been on the lookout for a new laptop for a while now. While the HP Envy was good—is good—the measly 8 gigs of RAM was struggling to hold in all t...

A Thought - Maybe More Money is not More Better

Nobody understands the economy. But more money is more better, right? Well, maybe. But an economy cannot be based on the creation of money alone.

TIL: Determine expected solution from given constraints

Automation is the serialization of understanding

What you’re about to read is a fancified excerpt from Ship It! #44. You should read the original transcript or listen to the entire conversation for more context. To set the stage, this is Kelsey’s...

I quit my job, built 8 freelance projects at a time, and made good money but… lost happiness💡

Real Estate vs Stocks

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investing for many years now. In particular, I find the investing side of personal finan...

My Custom Guitar from MaCo Guitars Is In!

This has been many years coming, and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this with y’all. Years ago, I met a brilliant engineer and guitar builder, who later started MaCo guitars. Many years...