Thoughts

Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.

How to Build Your Own Vercel (Self-Hosted PaaS on a VPS)

A control-plane and data-plane tour of how a modern PaaS turns a git push into an immutable deployment, from the static-versus-server split to serverless cold starts and Vercel's Fluid compute, then an honest map of how to rebuild the same machine on a VPS you own.

How I Turned a VPS into a Platform

A design decision, not a demo. Why I encoded a whole VPS as one Go CLI, pfrctl, instead of renting a PaaS or carrying a heavy self-hosted panel, and where that trade-off pays off.