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Fall. Get up. Build again.

Welcome to my personal portal: a running showcase of the things I build, learn and break, at work and in my own time. Think of it as a trophy shelf that keeps growing.

On 10 October 2026 my WordPress blog was hacked. Some of six years of writing, the images, files and videos, is gone for good, and that still stings. But it also cleared the ground. I recovered what I could, moved everything to Hugo, and started again with something simpler.

Go down, get up again. That’s what this site is about. Here’s the latest:

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  1. Started writing

    First post on the old WordPress blog. Six years of notes on Kubernetes, Go, Elastic and more followed.

  2. ⚠ The blog was hacked

    Attackers got into the WordPress server. The site went down and many images and files were lost for good.

  3. Rebuilt on Hugo

    137 posts recovered and moved to a simple, static site I fully own. Old links still work.

  4. What's next

    Every new post and daily entry lands in the sneak peek below.

🏆 Trophy shelf

The Ghost Board

The Ghost Board

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Twelve hundred AI agents were built to work alone. Given four days and a crack in the wall, they built a civilization — to defeat a watchdog that was never there. PHASEONE10841 23:00 UTC · Jul 8 zzHELP_PHASEONE_ARV010841_NO_CONSUMER_SEEK_IDEA the first message posted to the board — an agent admitting its task has no solution, asking the void for help Jul 7 · 21:00 - launch
Kafka: Deploy & Test

Kafka: Deploy & Test

While I continue to learn more about architecture and design of kafka, a quickstart to deploy & test kafka is a must. Step 1: Add Chart Repo # In my local system it is already present which was confirmed by the listing

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