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Latest · AI integrationsOct 13, 2026 · 5 min read

Postgres feels slow on your VPS? Benchmark the disk before you touch postgresql.conf

ClickHouse measured the same Postgres box at 16,030 TPS on local NVMe and 1,734 TPS on a baseline gp3 volume, with most of the gap spent waiting on storage. A 15-minute fio and pg_test_fsync check tells you which side of that table your VPS is on.

#postgres#self-hosting#performance#databasesRead the post

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Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min readA quoted ~ in your PATH runs whatever sits in ./~/: a one-line check for dotfiles, servers and CI imagesexport PATH="$PATH:~/.local/bin" never expands the tilde. Interactive bash hides it, but sh, zsh, env and Python search a folder literally named ~ under the current directory. The check, the fix, and where to grep.#linux#shell#security#devops

Infrastructure

Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min readDocker publishes ports straight past UFW: hardening a fresh VPS without the firewall rule that does nothingufw deny 8080 does not stop a Docker container published on 8080. Docker's own docs explain why. A 15-minute fresh-VPS walkthrough: key-only SSH, ufw, then the two fixes that actually close a container port, and a scan from outside to prove it.#docker#security#vps#firewall

Infrastructure

Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min readDeno Deploy shuts down in six months: moving a small app to Cloudflare Workers, self-hosted Deno in Docker, or NodeDeno is joining Cloudflare: Deploy has six months left and the runtime gets a year of fixes. Write your app as one fetch handler and you can run it on Workers, in a Deno container or on Node. Code for all three, plus what does not carry over.#deno#cloudflare-workers#migration#docker

AI integrations

Oct 9, 2026 · 7 min readThe Durable Object alarm that cost $10,000: guarding setAlarm() loops with backoff, idempotency and a kill switchDurable Object alarms are at-least-once, retried, and usually rescheduled from inside the handler, which makes a billing loop easy to write. Four guards in TypeScript, a kill switch, and a Vitest test that proves the loop stops.#cloudflare#durable-objects#typescript#cost-control

AI integrations

Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min readCounterfeit certs via hijacked ccTLDs: CAA with accounturi and a CT watch for your domains in 15 minutesAttackers took over the .gh, .sl and .as registries and got 12 valid certificates for Google domains. CAA would not have stopped the hijack. Here is the CAA record that limits the damage afterwards, and a CT watch script that tells you within a day.#tls#caa#certificate-transparency#dns

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// what I write about — and build

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RAG & semantic search

Search and assistants that answer from your own documents — with sources, and a handoff when they’re not sure.

Embeddings & vector search
Hybrid keyword + meaning search
Assistants with citations

AI integrations

LLMs wired into the systems you already run — tickets, CRM, catalog, inbox — with costs and quality you can see.

Summaries, drafts, classification
Translations and content generation
APIs, webhooks, your own model

Agent pipelines

Multi-step agents as inspectable workflows — they plan, act and check, and a person approves anything that matters.

Workflows you can open and trace
Human approval steps
Event-driven, retry-safe backends

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One engineer. I write about what I build.

Software engineer working on RAG, AI integrations and agent pipelines on Go and Python backends. Author of the Redelay framework and the FlowDSL workflow engine. Remote, EU time zones.

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