My ultimate setup: a £40 box that codes while I poop
How a failed eBay router became an always-on home server running my coding agent, reachable from my phone anywhere thanks to Tailscale, and how it bootstrapped its own upgrades.
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Random ramblings of a software engineer. Mostly about software, sometimes about life.
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Adaptation: new tools in town!
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Releasing Packages with a Valet Key: npm, PyPI, and beyond
How we built a secure, auditable, and low-friction release system at Sentry
Marking it Up (and Down)
How we added markdown versions of all 8754 pages on Sentry Docs (and keep going)
The magic word: TaxYearEnd
A British folk story on automated payroll, income taxes, and long documents
Nightmare on Apple Street
Finding your way around Apple's code signing requirements without macOS
Making your Node.js application last centuries
Creating self-contained & dependency-free Node.js applications across platforms
Docker Volume Caching on GitHub Actions
A new GitHub actions to cache your Docker volumes for faster and cheaper builds.
Having a Good Ol' RSS Feed in Astro
How to get a proper RSS feed for your blog in Astro with full content and images.
Roots
I've got no roots, but my home was never on the ground