Author: Mateo Peña Doll I built this custom gearbox dynamometer (aka dyno) to test marine transmissions I design and build from the ground up. Typically, my transmissions serve as a lower-unit gearbox for hydrofoiling electric boats. As a consulting mechanical … Read more
Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig This is a short post about how to create a statically linked Go executable that calls in to CGO dependencies using Zig. The full code for this post is available in … Read more
Why build a new low-level container runtime? The idea of separating the low-level container runtime concerns into its own tool or microservice is not new. Outside of the Kubernetes CRI, which presents container lifecycle management as a pluggable microservice, there … Read more
This is a long overdue post on iximiuz Labs‘ internal kitchen. It’ll cover why I decided to build my own learning-by-doing platform for DevOps, SRE, and Platform engineers, how I designed it, what technology stack chose, and how various components … Read more
We use an email service to send out various River-related notifications. Despite our best efforts setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, we were still getting reports of mail going to spam, so we started looking into alternate mailing providers to … Read more
23 Mar 2025 I have been using GitHub Actions extensively both at work and in personal projects, as shown in this post What I’ve been automating with GitHub Actions, an automated life. In my free time, I’m working on a … Read more
In the world of AI agents, the ability to understand and analyze structured data is a game-changer. While large language models excel at understanding natural language, they struggle with quantitative analysis when data is presented as unstructured text. This is … Read more
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as … Read more
The ESP32 is a low-cost microcontroller with Wi-Fi connectivity. Currently, the Wi-Fi MAC layer of the ESP32 is closed-source. This project aims to change that: by reverse engineering the hardware registers and software, we can build a networking stack that … Read more
As everyone is well aware, the world is still going nuts trying to develop more, newer and better AI tools. Mostly by throwing absurd amounts of money at the problem. Many of those billions go towards building cheap or free … Read more