PIXELSMITH
A QUEST IN 32 BITS
Long ago, in the quiet kingdom of PIXELTON...
...a lone developer set out from their cabin with a six-button keyboard, a stubborn mule named kubectl, and a dream of building software that wouldn't page them at three in the morning.
Their name was Alex Pixelsmith.
This is the tale of their homepage.
Howdy, traveler! Welcome to the village.
The name's Alex. I keep this place — a small cabin on the internet where I build little machines that hum.
By day I wrangle servers and write code.
By dusk I tend my own little homestead of services and write the occasional dispatch about both.
Come further in — let me show you around.
Here are the things I've forged.
Mind the sparks.
FORGE
A tiny build tool that turns a folder of Markdown into a website before your coffee cools. Fast, boring, and dependable.
BEACON
A one-host status monitor. Docker. Traefik. Quiet. The bedrock the other services lean on, awake longer than I have been some years.
ATLAS
This very site — a Zola static build dressed in this theme. (You're standing in the prototype.)
Ah! A reader.
Peruse the dispatches if you've a mind to — they're all written by the same hand that built the village.
ON KEEPING A SERVER HONEST
Notes from a long night with a stubborn box, three cups of coffee, and a healthier respect for systemd timers than I had at sundown.
THE CASE FOR A BORING DEPLOY
If your release theatre needs a stage manager, you might be doing too much. A quiet plea for unremarkable Tuesdays.
AN LLM IS A VERY FAST APPRENTICE
What working with an AI agent reminds me of — and why I keep handing it the soldering iron with both eyes open.
Reckon it's time for you to choose a road.
Each one leads someplace useful.
- ► EMAIL hello @ example.com
- ► GITHUB @example
- ► RSS example.com / atom.xml
- ► SIGNAL on request
- ► POST a real envelope, even
THE END?
★ PIXEL QUEST ★
CODE & DESIGN ........ A. PIXELSMITH
HOSTING ............... BEACON
WORLD .................. ONE BIG SVG
SOUNDTRACK ......... SILENT
SPECIAL THANKS .. YOU, FOR SCROLLING
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