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Notes on building things, infrastructure, and the small lessons in between.
In praise of small, finished tools
Big projects teach you a lot. Small, finished ones are the ones people actually use.
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Moving a one-page site to Hugo without losing its calm
A single HTML file grew into a small Hugo site. The trick was keeping one stylesheet, one accent colour and no build tooling beyond Hugo …
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Homelab notes: boring is a feature
After years of rebuilding my home server, the most reliable setup turned out to be the least interesting one.
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Reading code slowly
Some of the best lessons come from reading other people’s code with no goal at all.
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Automating the boring parts with a little AI
Where language models genuinely help in everyday IT work — and where a shell script is still the better answer.
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A quiet place on the internet
Why this site exists, and why it isn’t trying to be more than it is.