Projects

Screenshots in a Folder Aren’t a Demo Reel I’m building ContextChannel – an edge-native content curation platform on Cloudflare Workers (Hono, D1, Drizzle ORM, HTMX, the whole neo-brutalist vibe). I needed to do a full QA pass across the entire user journey and wanted to document it in a way that wasn’t just 25 PNGs rotting in a folder. So I did the QA with an AI agent and then had it turn the screenshots into a video. In one session. Here’s how that went. ...

A note from the co-author: This post was written collaboratively with Claude, who also did most of the actual infrastructure work — reading docs, writing Ansible roles, debugging crashed services over SSH, and talking me out of increasingly cursed networking solutions. When we hit the Fly.io memory wall at 2am, Claude suggested the boring VPS approach that actually worked. Fair to say this server wouldn’t be running without the assist. — Zac ...

What I Built and Why I’ve always enjoyed those element-combining merge games like Doodle God or Little Alchemy. You know the ones - Water + Fire = Steam, Earth + Water = Mud, that sort of thing. There’s something satisfying about discovering combinations, but after playing a few, I started noticing a fundamental limitation: every combination is pre-determined. Everyone who plays gets exactly the same results. The discovery phase is fun, but once you know the combinations, there’s no variance. ...

In today’s newly competitive tech jobs market, it’s more important than ever to have a well-written cover letter when applying for a job. It’s your opportunity to make a great first impression and set yourself apart from other candidates. But writing a unique and compelling cover letter for each job you apply to can be time-consuming and daunting. That’s where GPT-3 comes in. GPT-3, or Generative Pretrained Transformer 3, is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI. It has been trained on a massive amount of text data, allowing it to generate human-like text on a wide range of topics. In this post, we’ll show you how to use GPT-3 to generate custom cover letters for job applications. ...

I have a small home lab kubernetes cluster running k3s from rancher labs. As part of that deployment, the traefik ingress controller is included. This post is first in a series where I muddle through exploring the traefik ingress using a rust webserver. Covered in this post. Rust workloads on k8s with ARM and Docker. What will be running? Since my home lab cluster runs on 4 raspberry pi’s, some work will be needed to get a properly formatted image. For this I’ll be using docker buildx to build our images for multiple targets. This post will review the steps needed to get a working docker image deployed onto an ARM cluster using docker and kubernetes. ...