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A. PIXELSMITH  ยท  LV 12
โ˜… A PERSONAL HOMEPAGE QUEST โ˜…

PIXELSMITH

A QUEST IN 32 BITS

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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.

ALEX

Howdy, traveler! Welcome to the village.

The name's Alex. I keep this place โ€” a small cabin on the internet where I build little machines that hum.

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ALEX

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 โ€” let me show you around.

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โ˜… THE WORKSHOP โ˜…

Here are the things I've forged.

Mind the sparks.

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FORGE

A tiny build tool that turns a folder of Markdown into a website before your coffee cools. Fast, boring, and dependable.

โ˜… STATUS: ACTIVE โ˜…

BEACON

A one-host status monitor. Docker. Traefik. Quiet. The bedrock the other services lean on, awake longer than I have been some years.

โ˜… STATUS: IN SERVICE โ€” 142d UPTIME โ˜…

ATLAS

This very site โ€” a Zola static build dressed in this theme. (You're standing in the prototype.)

โ˜… STATUS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION โ˜…
SCRIBE

Ah! A reader.

Peruse the dispatches if you've a mind to โ€” they're all written by the same hand that built the village.

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VOL. I ยท DISPATCH 06 ยท 06 / 09 / 2026

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.

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VOL. I ยท DISPATCH 05 ยท 05 / 28 / 2026

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.

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VOL. I ยท DISPATCH 04 ยท 05 / 04 / 2026

AN LLM IS A VERY FAST APPRENTICE

What working with an AI agent reminds me of โ€” and why I keep handing it the soldering iron with both eyes open.

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ALEX

Reckon it's time for you to choose a road.

Each one leads someplace useful.

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THE END?

โ˜… PIXEL QUEST โ˜…

 

CODE & DESIGN ........ A. PIXELSMITH

HOSTING ............... BEACON

WORLD .................. ONE BIG SVG

SOUNDTRACK ......... SILENT

SPECIAL THANKS .. YOU, FOR SCROLLING

 

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