Lessons from the Terminal

Twice-weekly field notes on infrastructure, AI, and systems.

What I built, what broke, and the evidence that changed the next decision.

Jul 2026 Portfolio

The Human Side of Self-Hosting

Self-hosting makes infrastructure unusually personal. A failed service may interrupt a movie, a file someone needs, a name lookup, or a quiet evening. The technical symptom can be small while the human consequence is immediate. It can also be technically noisy while nobody cares.

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Jun 2026 Portfolio

The Case for a Smaller Blast Radius

“Blast radius” sounds like infrastructure language, but public-site work has one too. A content correction can touch a single essay, every page using a template, or the build and publishing path for an entire archive. The site may be static and the change may be mostly words. That doesn’t make th...

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