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The Rust ecosystem is unreasonably good
A second pass on the Rust port of my blog, where I dropped the chromium PDF subprocess for embedded Typst. Some notes on axum, comrak, minijinja and Typst.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-09
Rewriting my blog in Rust
I rewrote this blog from Flask to Rust over an afternoon. The result is a single 3.5 MB binary that uses 14x less memory and serves 10x more requests per second.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-06
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Zero downtime deploys with Caddy
One line in Caddy holds requests while a Docker container is replaced, so a deploy looks like a slow page instead of a 502.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-10-03
An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own assistant on a 9B at home and the tool calling loop in it is a few hundred lines of Go, most of which is there to stop it offering to look something up instead of looking it up.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
Why not make your own dashboard in 2026
I was checking the same six tabs all day out of habit so I built one page with all of it on it, and it only took a couple of evenings.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-10
It's Go all the way down
Every process in front of my websites is a Go binary now, from the tunnel to the web server to the sites themselves, and the whole stack runs on a desktop I already owned for a few dollars a month in power.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-08-30