How I Perfected the Ergonomics of my Digital Nomad Work Setup
After 50+ trips to different countries around the world over the last 10 years, I’ve perfected my Digital Nomad setup and I’d like to share some findings with you. »
Bandurria: A Lightweight Comment System for Static Websites
Bandurria is a self-hosted lightweight comment system for static websites and blogs. It is protected by a built-in Proof-of-Work anti-bot. Built in Rust, it consumes only 4MB of RAM to run on your server. »
What's Inside my Day Bag (EDC 2025)
In this article, I share a full list of the tech I travel with in my Day Bag. As a busy Digital Nomad software developer and business founder, as soon as I’m away from home I lose the comfort of my chair and big screen. »
Generating SSL certificates in Nomad with Certbot
My elegant method to manage SSL certificates in a Nomad-native way with Certbot, leveraging Nomad templates. This method makes it possible to provide SSL certificates to any service running in Nomad, from NGINX to Postfix. »
Automating Nomad deployments from GitHub Actions
How I managed to trigger automated deployments from GitHub Actions of my Docker images with Nomad, hacking around Nomad variables, and securing the whole process with Nomad policies. »
Designing a Tray for my Vintage Apple Keyboard & Trackpad
Bringing the ergonomics of the 16 inches MacBook Pro to my 2012 Apple wireless Keyboard and Trackpad, with a custom tray design that creates a single solid piece. »
Retrying failed requests to an HTTP API with Axios
On improving the resiliency of a Web application to failed network paths, temporary proxying and tunneling errors and HTTP timeouts, with absolutely no server-side changes. »
Deploy a Nomad Cluster on Alpine Linux with Vultr
How to deploy a Nomad cluster on cheap Vultr servers, step-by-step, using a minimal Alpine Linux distribution. The Nomad cluster will be made of 3 Nomad servers and as many Nomad clients as you’d like. We will be automating the process of adding more Nomad clients as you grow. »
Horizontal Scaling of Socket.IO Microservices with RabbitMQ
Optimizations that resulted in much less events per seconds on our RabbitMQ cluster. We have reduced approximately by 40% the CPU load induced by RabbitMQ on the host server. »
Estimating My Carbon Footprint for The Year
View my full carbon footprint estimation report for 2021, containing all details and calculation methods. »