Portfolio

Personal Projects

• agent-pete
  • Using Ollama, I built my own agent. Supports tools, skills, profiles, thinking, streaming and non-streaming, retries and exponential backoff, et al.
  • Written in Go.
• cluster
  • Builds a Kubernetes-like cluster in a lab environment using Linux primitives.
  • Bash shell scripts.
• git-hooks-and-extensions
  • Adds Git pre-commit hooks and multi-purpose extensions. No language or external dependencies, and it leverages Git’s own design, i.e., adds pre-commit hooks in .git/hooks/ and .git/config, etc.
  • Easy install using Podman or Docker.
  • Written in Bash shell scripts.
• go-simple-chat
  • Multi-user chat client/server.
  • Written in Go.
• link-scanner
  • Builds an AST of one or more HTML pages and collects all links. Header requests are then sent with custom headers and are grouped by status code.
  • Integrates into CI/CD pipelines to catch broken links.
  • Written in Go.
• Asteroids (multiplayer)
  • Multiplayer terminal game.
  • Written in Go.
• scale-buddy
  • Scale Buddy is a CLI tool to help learn scales and modes.
  • Written in Go.

Technical Writing

AI / LLMs

• On Ollama

Clusters and Linux Primitives

• On Building A Cluster From Linux Primitives
• On cgroups
• On Linux Container Networking
• On Kustomize
• On Flux
• On Dockerfile Best Practices
• On Unsharing Namespaces, Part One
• On Unsharing Namespaces, Part Two
• On runc
• On systemd-nspawn

Debugging

• On Remote Debugging A Pod With Delve
• On Elves
• On Inspecting deb Packages
• On Inspecting RPM Packages
• On Debugging Python
• On Cheat Sheets: GDB

General Education

• On exec As A Logger
• On Decimal To Binary
• On System Calls
• On Classless Networks
• On Classful Networks
• On Fork Bombs

Hacking

• On Stack Smashing, Part One
• On Stack Smashing, Part Two

Programming

• On Link Scanning And systemd
• On Data Structures In Go
• On git-hooks-and-extensions
• On vim-go
• On Scale Buddy
• On Getting Started with Go
• On Ints as Bit Vectors

Security

• On Creating an Encrypted USB Drive
• On Creating a Signing Subkey
• On Running a Tor Onion Service in a Chroot
• On Password Strength
• On Using GPG

Virtualization

• On Virtualization And Virtual Machines
• On Ditching Vagrant

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All code and text have been written by me. No LLMs were used.