Writing on DevOps, platform engineering, and building things.
I'd set up Kubernetes clusters in my homelab and spent real time learning it, but still couldn't honestly explain what it was doing under the hood. So I built my own orchestrator — Smith — to earn the understanding by feeling every decision from the inside.
I built DeployOps because I couldn't answer a basic question about my own production environment without SSHing into boxes. Here's what it does and how it works.
A custom static site generator in Go, deployed via Woodpecker CI on merge to main. No frameworks, no CMS, just goldmark and html/template.