Devops

Infrastructure, automation, and operational thinking applied to real projects. These posts cover the DevOps decisions behind building and running production systems.

Own Your Stack, Part 2: The How

Building a custom Hugo theme from scratch, wrangling Wrangler, and discovering that the finished automation always looks trivial but the knowledge baked into it never is.

Own Your Stack, Part 1: The Why

Technology selection, cost analysis, and bootstrapping a Hugo site with Claude Code. The napkin math, the theme trap, and why mentoring your AI assistant matters more than prompting it.

Own Your Stack, Part 0: The What

I build interesting things constantly and share almost none of it. This series is about fixing that by replacing a $384/year platform with a zero-cost stack I actually control.