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A review of software distribution and dependency management, examining how Nix enables hermetic, deterministic, and possibly reproducible builds.

Part III of the war-story of how we slashed 80% of our cloud costs - replacing AWS Lambda with a Kubernetes native solution

Part II of a war-story of how we slashed 80% of our cloud costs - migrating from AWS RDS Aurora to DO managed DB.

Part I of the saga. How we slashed 80% of our cloud costs - how we dropped serverless, migrated DBs and fully embraced k8s

Making Laravel workers Go fast in AWS Lambda using RoadRunner

A guide on how to configure opencode to work with llama.cpp for local AI development

A guide on how to use Qwen3-Coder with Qwen Code and llama.cpp for local development

A neuroevolution experiment in Godot, where a neural network and a genetic algorithm teach a virtual bat to avoid obstacles.

Learn how to build and package a PHP extension using Nix, specifically for the dbase extension that isn't available in nixpkgs. This guide shows you how to create a custom Nix derivation to include PHP extensions not found in the standard repository.

A guide on how to play World of Warcraft on Linux using a Windows VM approach to bypass recent Battle.net compatibility issues with Wine and Proton.