Blogging Roller

I would say that 99% of the code in the Investor Ping's backend and iOS app was written by LLMs, but I did not vibe code it. My definition of vibe coding is when you use an LLM to write code that you do not review or even read. Nope, I ran the project like I always do with design docs, issue tracking, pull requests and CI/CD sandbox and production deploys (in this case to DigitalOcean). I review all code and try to enforce some architectural constraints, mostly about separation of concerns, configuration and secrets management; but maybe less so in the iOS app because I am new to iOS and Swift.[Read More]

Just a note to say that I've switched this site over to Digital Ocean Kubernetes service, which is in Limited Availability right now.

Digital Ocean's Kubernetes service is just as simple and well designed as the rest of Digital Ocean. I mentioned before that I rolled my own Kubernetes cluster via Ansible and Kubeadm. Now I can delete all those config files and that's a good thing. Plus, the price is right; I can get by with one $10/month node (1 CPU / 2 GB memory) and a $10/month load balancer.

To get this site up and running I had to deploy four things to my cluster. I installed the NGINX Ingress Controller, Cert-Manager for automatic creation of Let's Encrypt TLS certs, PostgreSQL and my custom build of Apache Roller. All of that went pretty smoothly and I didn't run into and problems that I could blame on Digital Ocean.