Simple tricks for faster Rust programs

Rust programs are pretty fast on their own, but you can slightly augment their performance with some simple tricks.

July 5, 2020 · 3 min

How Cloudflare proxies CNAME records

Everybody probably understands how Cloudflare proxies A/AAAA records, but how it proxies CNAME records is also pretty interesting. Let’s dive into how that happens and why it can often break other products that need you to set CNAME records.

May 8, 2020 · 2 min

Switching my email to Purelymail

I recently moved from forwarding my email through Google to hosting it through Purelymail.com. Here are some thoughts about the process and the motivation behind it

April 13, 2020 · 6 min

Dagger the easy way - Part 2

Let’s extend the “scope” of these tutorials :)

March 6, 2020 · 6 min

Sunsetting Viscerion

The Viscerion experiment that started more than a year ago is now coming to an end. Here’s what’s happening.

February 9, 2020 · 2 min

Creating a continuously deploying static statuspage with GitHub

GitHub Actions paired with GitHub Pages provides an excellent CD platform for a status page. Here’s how I used it to create mine.

February 5, 2020 · 4 min

Adding social metadata to your Hugo sites

Optimize social media exposure with the right metadata for your site

February 3, 2020 · 2 min

Dagger the easy way - Part 1

Dagger is universally intimidating to beginners and I want to change it.

January 20, 2020 · 7 min

Integrating comments in Hugo sites with commento

Adding additional comment backends to Hugo is actually rather simple!

January 20, 2020 · 3 min

My Dagger Story

Dagger is not the easiest tool to get on board with but it’s almost worth the effort. Here’s the story of my journey to not hating Dagger.

January 11, 2020 · 5 min