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Lessons learned writing a custom Salt renderer.

I had to write a custom SaltStack renderer, and while the concept sounded simple, it took longer than I expected. I ran into several “gotchas” as a beginner, so I list them here for you to learn from my mistakes.

Scaling FreeBoardGames.org backends horizontally

In this post, I describe how we were able to scale the FreeBoardGames.org’s NestJs and boardgame.io backends horizontally using Pub/Sub.

Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now.

In this post, I share why I chose Jekyll Now and Github Pages to build this blog.