Maybe I Don't Want to Do This Alone
For three years, I ran Magic Pages alone. I liked it that way. Make a decision, execute, move on. No meetings. No alignment. No explaining myself. Just me and my work. When people asked if I'd e…
The Weight of the Good Days
Two days ago, I had 1,200 websites go down. Cascading Docker failures, a swarm that refused to rebuild, datacenter capacity issues, and me sitting on my couch trying to hold it all together. That…
Updating 1,200 Ghost Sites
This is the ninth post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements First…
Fighting Ghost Magic Link Spam (and Rethinking My CDN)
If you've been following along, you know I spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about infrastructure. This post is about a problem I've been really really annoyed with for the last co…
Drawing the Lines
This is the eighth post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements Firs…
The Rehearsal Stage
This is the seventh post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements Fir…
Did This Email Arrive In My Inbox?
Back in August, I asked a question: Did this email arrive in YOUR inbox? Did This Email Arrive In Your Inbox?So uhh...hi. I hope you’re not just reading this on my website, through ActivityPub, , or…
Did This Email Arrive In Your Inbox?
So uhh...hi. I hope you're not just reading this on my website, through ActivityPub, , or RSS, but also in your email clients. Because here's the thing. Ideally, this post was sent as a newsl…
When Life Gives You...
...double taxation agreements. Oh well, where do I start? A few months ago, I eagerly told you about incorporating Magic Pages. I went and had meetings with tax advisors, spoke to legal professional…
My Own Little Docker Swarm UI
Recently, I left you with a bit of a cliffhanger in the end of this post, I know. It was about finding a better way to manage my Docker Swarm cluster. Well, here's where that story leads. I am st…
Why Distributed Storage Matters (Even When It Hurts)
So, here's the thing about distributed storage: it's the reason I spent sleepless nights wrestling with Longhorn, watching my infrastructure costs explode, and ultimately migrating 650 Ghost s…
Swim, Docker, Swim!
So, here's the awkward truth: after weeks of research into LXC, conversations with some pretty experienced DevOps engineers, and even briefly reconsidering Kubernetes, Magic Pages is going back to…