hereticles

hereticles

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Hi, and welcome. I’ve been writing here since 2007 - a cross-section of my life and my interests. The most recent thread is kraya , a company I built and ran for 15 years.

There are also posts about triangle , a game I am building on zig .

You can also find poems and short stories if that’s what you’re into.

21 Jun 2026

Testing SSE in zig When EVERYTHING Blocks

524 words, ~2 min read

I rely on TDD heavily and really don’t like manual testing. So when I started building SSE support into …

21 Jun 2026

Mantel: at a Glance

2,050 words, ~8 min read

After I started the migration from the cloud to my own infra , I had more things to monitor, like the VPS which hosted …

09 Jun 2026

What Matters

1,420 words, ~5 min read

I was a pack rat, and so I had almost every single email I had sent and received. I had almost all of the code that I, …

05 Jun 2026

Stopping...

1,272 words, ~5 min read

I lived my life in a different order from most people. I started my own company when I was 18. I built my most high …

02 Jun 2026

Getting Envoy Gateway working with kind without cloud-provider-kind

482 words, ~1 min read

EXTERNAL-IP: <pending>. The official workaround is cloud-provider-kind, a binary that watches the cluster and …

02 Jun 2026

What Easy Costs

1,262 words, ~5 min read

I was working for KFC, in a leadership role, when during the stand-up a problem came up. I had previously worked …

28 May 2026

Mobile Strategy Games Don't Have a Monetisation Problem - They Have a Game Problem

2,639 words, ~10 min read

A few months ago, my partner got me playing one of those mobile strategy games - you know the type - build a city, train …

27 May 2026

Sovereignty Over Convenience

3,258 words, ~13 min read

I’ve recently been on a journey reclaiming sovereignty over all of my data and infrastructure. I still remember …

26 May 2026

Point-in-time source links across Hugo modules

906 words, ~3 min read

When referencing source code that I’d written, I wanted to be able to link to the file and have it reference the …

25 May 2026

Only One Per Customer

382 words, ~1 min read

henge pushes config to edge devices. Semantically, each device should connect once - except:

  • What if a device is …