Posts

• Jul 30, 2026

  Getting indexed without waiting for the crawler

  Publishing is only half of the job. A post that nobody can find might as well not exist, and for a static site the gap between deploying a page and a search engine noticing it is entirely out of your hands. Both Google and Bing offer APIs to close that gap by pushing URLs at them directly — and both are fiddly enough that hardly anyone bothers. indeks is a small Rust CLI that does the bothering for you.

• Jan 23, 2025

  Linting Fastly VCL with Falco GitHub Action

  When pushing VCL files to Fastly, a missing semicolon or comma can lead to a failure. The configuration will fail to activate, you have to check why and what errored. Typos happen. It’s linter’s job to catch them and let us fail fast.

• Nov 10, 2020

  MacBook Pro M1 looks like a developer machine

  Apple’s new MacBook Pro delivers more than the new M1 chip. Something good is back for the developers.

• Oct 20, 2020

  Avoid DevOps disruption by Docker Hub changes

  Docker will start rate-limiting image pulls from Docker Hub on November 1st, potentially halting a fair number of CI/CD pipelines.

• Mar 29, 2018

  First major CDN launches its data centre in Estonia

  Big news from Cloudflare: it is expanding its CDN network to Baltics.