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Writing about infrastructure, developer tools, debugging, and the messy reality of building software.

April 8, 2026

Building a VM Provisioning Pipeline from Scratch

How I designed a system that provisions Windows VMs with custom configurations, handles credential injection, and maintains security through automated hardening.

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March 22, 2026

Why I Chose Astro Over Next.js for My Personal Site

A practical comparison of two great frameworks and why shipping zero JavaScript by default was the right call for a content-focused site.

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March 5, 2026

Debugging ECS Health Checks at 2 AM

The story of a subtle race condition in our container orchestrator health check reconciliation loop, and the map-based pool pattern that fixed it.

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