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Build Your Own Thing: Why Passion + Understanding Beats Just Following Steps

Your Own 24/7 Internet Radio by Ivaylo Demidov

Build your own 24/7 internet radio in a single weekend — on a €5 server, understood down to the last line. Ten chapters from bare server to on-air: the tower (Icecast), the robot (Liquidsoap), the door (nginx). Every step tested live, every trap marked. Friday it's a napkin sketch; Sunday night a stranger presses play, and it plays.

Launch

How AI Enabled Solo Author to Do Robust Testing on a Cloud Book

Apache CloudStack — A Production Deployment Guide by Michael Hinsley

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Launch

He Built MatrixClaw: AI That Builds, Breaks & Governs Infrastructure

Apache CloudStack — A Production Deployment Guide by Michael Hinsley

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Launch

Python Scripts Make Complex Harness Setup Easy — MatrixCore Nano on GitHub

Apache CloudStack — A Production Deployment Guide by Michael Hinsley

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Launch

Why Sysadmins Fled to Apache CloudStack After Their Hypervisor Got Acquired

Apache CloudStack — A Production Deployment Guide by Michael Hinsley

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Launch

When a Cloud Product Gets Acquired and Everything Changes

Apache CloudStack — A Production Deployment Guide by Michael Hinsley

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Podcast

How Pinterest Impressions Drive Real Book Traffic

No Direction by Max Guernsey, III

It's 1021 and members of a supernatural cabal are threatened by a man searching for ancient technology from the world that came before. The man they are hunting is weaker, slower, and doesn't have the backing of their organization. Yet, somehow, this man who should have been in their hands on the first day keeps slipping through their fingers: he controls when and where they meet, and every outcome seems the result of some plan the team only recognizes after it has succeeded. As the hunt pulls the team out of Europe and away from the backing of Council power, they must devise a way to catch him before he finds whatever it is he seeks.

Podcast

Author Automates Serial Novel Releases & Debates AI in Writing

No Direction by Max Guernsey, III

It's 1021 and members of a supernatural cabal are threatened by a man searching for ancient technology from the world that came before. The man they are hunting is weaker, slower, and doesn't have the backing of their organization. Yet, somehow, this man who should have been in their hands on the first day keeps slipping through their fingers: he controls when and where they meet, and every outcome seems the result of some plan the team only recognizes after it has succeeded. As the hunt pulls the team out of Europe and away from the backing of Council power, they must devise a way to catch him before he finds whatever it is he seeks.

Podcast

Author Plans YouTube Channel Around His Book Series

No Direction by Max Guernsey, III

It's 1021 and members of a supernatural cabal are threatened by a man searching for ancient technology from the world that came before. The man they are hunting is weaker, slower, and doesn't have the backing of their organization. Yet, somehow, this man who should have been in their hands on the first day keeps slipping through their fingers: he controls when and where they meet, and every outcome seems the result of some plan the team only recognizes after it has succeeded. As the hunt pulls the team out of Europe and away from the backing of Council power, they must devise a way to catch him before he finds whatever it is he seeks.

Podcast

I'd Pay 30x for Research Help — But Never to Write for Me

No Direction by Max Guernsey, III

It's 1021 and members of a supernatural cabal are threatened by a man searching for ancient technology from the world that came before. The man they are hunting is weaker, slower, and doesn't have the backing of their organization. Yet, somehow, this man who should have been in their hands on the first day keeps slipping through their fingers: he controls when and where they meet, and every outcome seems the result of some plan the team only recognizes after it has succeeded. As the hunt pulls the team out of Europe and away from the backing of Council power, they must devise a way to catch him before he finds whatever it is he seeks.

Launch

Kill One Agent Before It Takes Down Everything

Rethinking Performance Engineering for Agentic AI by Kandasamy Selvaraj

Your agent passed every load test and timed out in production anyway. This free practitioner's guide shows why the traditional performance playbook breaks for agentic AI, and what replaces it: latency budgets, bounded autonomy, token SLOs, and production-grade observability, from a performance engineering and observability architect with two decades in production.

Launch

Old Engineering Primitives Still Apply to AI — Just Differently

Rethinking Performance Engineering for Agentic AI by Kandasamy Selvaraj

Your agent passed every load test and timed out in production anyway. This free practitioner's guide shows why the traditional performance playbook breaks for agentic AI, and what replaces it: latency budgets, bounded autonomy, token SLOs, and production-grade observability, from a performance engineering and observability architect with two decades in production.

Launch

20 Years of Experience — Then Agentic AI Made Him Unlearn It All

Rethinking Performance Engineering for Agentic AI by Kandasamy Selvaraj

Your agent passed every load test and timed out in production anyway. This free practitioner's guide shows why the traditional performance playbook breaks for agentic AI, and what replaces it: latency budgets, bounded autonomy, token SLOs, and production-grade observability, from a performance engineering and observability architect with two decades in production.