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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
Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Many Linux distros have a way to configure automated updates but somewhat surprisingly Alpine Linux does not.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-16
Set up automated server backups with Borg
The Borg deduplicating backup program can automate daily, weekly, and monthly backups with a single script saving space and keeping data safe from mistakes.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-06-25
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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
A status line for Claude Code
A drop-in status line for Claude Code that shows your 5-hour usage quota, context window, working directory with git branch, and the time, all out of one bash file, plus a quick walk through how it works.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-06-13
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