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Instrument What You Can't See

At the end of my DeepDame writeup I mentioned something almost in passing: the backend was designed for an LGTM observability stack, and in production it ran on a single VM on a desktop in my room. Both halves of that are still true. Every backend I ...

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DeepDame: Two Semesters, Two Halves of a System

DeepDame is a real-time multiplayer checkers game. We built it across two semesters, five of us, at FST Settat. The repo is public. The APK works.

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Architecting a Modular Home Lab: A Systems Engineering Playground

Every computer science student knows the lingering anxiety of executing a complex command on their primary workstation. When your interests lean heavily toward systems engineering and system administration, your daily driver inevitably becomes a min...

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My Arr Stack Setup: Proxmox, LXCs, and NFS Workarounds

This blog exists for one primary reason: to serve as documentation for future-me. Debugging a broken server configuration months down the line when you have zero memory of what you originally did is an absolute nightmare.

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