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Short, practical notes. I write these mostly to avoid answering the same question twice.

Why this site ships zero-JS-ish: SvelteKit + mdsvex

A portfolio that prerenders to static HTML pages, hydrates almost nothing, and still looks generous. My hydration budget is smaller than my self-pity budget.

  • sveltekit
  • mdsvex
  • performance

20 September 2025

Reproducible everything: my NixOS + devenv stack

The same flake drives my laptop, CI, and production servers. Here is the shape of it, without the 40-minute Nix evangelism talk.

  • nixos
  • devenv
  • devops

12 September 2025

Structured LLM extraction with Zod contracts

If you let an LLM answer freeform you get a product demo. If you make it fill a Zod schema you get a service. The difference is one `parse()` call.

  • ai
  • zod
  • typescript

1 September 2025

sops-nix without the panic

Encrypted secrets on NixOS sound like a yak-shave. They are really a 30-minute setup that kills the worst kind of 3am incident.

  • nixos
  • sops
  • secrets

30 August 2025

Cheap observability on Hetzner

Prometheus + Grafana + Loki, declaratively, for the price of one small VPS. Your side projects deserve dashboards too — mostly so you can stop tail -f in bed.

  • devops
  • grafana
  • nixos

18 July 2025