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Field notes, experiments, and the occasional rant. A log of what I'm learning, breaking, and building — plus the random stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.
The web framework this site is built on. Content-first, zero JS by default.
Headless CMS driving the dashboard. Open API over a SQLite file.
One compose file, the whole stack runs anywhere.
Self-hosted deployment platform for side projects. Builds Docker images on your laptop, streams them directly to your VPS — no registry needed. Containers sleep to zero when idle and wake on incoming requests, so you can host unlimited apps on a single cheap VPS. Multi-node support with mTLS, auto-placement, and a clean web dashboard. Built in Rust, under 58MB.
Fast, disk-efficient package manager. Replaced npm for me.
GLM-5.3 launched this week. Same base model as 5.2 — no new pretraining, everything from post-training. Z.ai's own line: "Scaling post-training is all we did." Benchmarks look promising, but need to test this to see if it makes any major improvements in real life.
Configured CamoFox browser with DataImpulse proxy. Picked DataImpulse because they have a pay-as-you-go plan and wanted to test it anyway. Costs $1/1GB for regular residential proxy, $5/1GB for premium residential. Will see where this takes us in research and browsing.
Refactored the large Rust files in LiteBin and set up CI with fmt, clippy, and tests. Release now runs these before releasing. Need more tests, but for now focusing on the next core features as documented in planning.
Started refactoring LiteBin. Over the period some files have been growing in size and becoming god files — difficult to maintain in the future. Starting those now. Will review and see what all remains after the refactor. LiteBin is written in Rust and I've been postponing CI. Maybe after this I'll add clippy and a test run as part of the version release.
Spotted something interesting, or want to point me at a tool? Drop it here.