The Gentrification of Experience
Every new site I open looks like the last one. Nobody planned the sameness, and generative AI is speeding it up.
Building a Two-Node Upstream Kubernetes Cluster on Intel NUCs
Built on November 11, 2026. What we built and why I wanted a small Kubernetes cluster at home, no distro wrappers and no single-binary shortcuts. As lazy as I am, I wanted to go back to the roots of Kubernetes by just using upstream Kubernetes installed with kubeadm. The cluster runs on two Intel NUCs … Read more
How Do You Turn a Spare Mini PC Into a Desk Dashboard?
I built Deskboard to turn an old mini PC and a spare monitor into a desk dashboard with clocks, lists, GitHub stars and a status feed my bots can post to. Here is how to install it as a fullscreen kiosk, set it up from the drag and drop configurator, and keep it private on your tailnet.
Kamal on Akamai/Linode vs. AWS ECS Fargate for Sporadic Ruby on Rails Apps
There’s a version of platform strategy that looks beautifully simple on a whiteboard. You pick a PaaS everyone trusts, pay the monthly bill, ship code, and sleep at night. Then one day the vendor quietly shifts focus to “sustainability engineering” and you realize the platform isn’t getting the love it used to. Sound familiar? That’s … Read more