Nicholas Romero

NixOS deploys the configuration, sops-nix deploys the secrets, and a YubiKey guards the key that gets three Raspberry Pis started.

A mildly retrocausal planning notation — pin the next minor release and it reaches back to decide which feature you commit today.

A book report on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras for my yoga teacher training at Loveland Yoga.

A parametric methodology that collapses PCB layout, cable-harness routing, and mechanical enclosure into a single 3D-printed substrate, with arbitrary 3D sensor orientation as a first-class design parameter.

I needed numbers that exist only as a hand-drawn curve in a fifty-year-old Apollo report.

A single HTML file fetches markdown from GitHub's Contents API, renders it with marked.js, and deploys on Vercel with clean URL rewrites.

Scoping SSH Access Without Killing Your Productivity

Notes that span projects need their own repo.

A framework for managing agentic AI workflows through multi-dimensional budgets: tokens, time, money, human attention, and risk.

Self-sovereign NixOS infrastructure with TPM security and declarative configuration

A development platform with preview environments for every pull request

A meal planning platform that optimizes for nutrition, wellbeing, budget, and culinary curiosity

Comparing GPT-4 and (local) Mistral 7B: An comparison of their performance using WasmEdge for local GPT model execution.

Building a single purpose embeeded device to teach basic arithmetic.

Working with multiple GPTs to quickly iterate on ideas.

Using Pandas and xargs we import a table exported as multiple csvs in parallel to multiple tables before rejoining them using a union.

I often reach for KVM for work that doesn't really fit into containerized workloads.

In this post I discuss my experience with my Linux workstations that use a technology called PCIe passthrough to use a dedicated GPU for gaming in a Windows Guest.

I've been contemplating the Dunning-Kruger effect and it's caused a bit of anxiety.

How to train for Vo2 max using the Apple Watch.

A new project i'm working on to build better blogs that live inside of git.

Visiting New Orleans with my friend Andy

Origin's of my Tanzania Africa trip to climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the Arizona Burn center.

Building clean reusable components and avoiding decision paralysis when choosing their props.

How to build a Slack notifier when scheduled E2E tests fail.

This guide shows how to set up a Kubernetes node with Alpine

Making linux Docker more like Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows.

We look at a streamlined form stepper design pattern.

Understanding and Implementing Private Intranets

What is the Apollo cache, ensure correct usage and update post mutation.

A Reusable Component Design Pattern for CSS Grid Areas in Typescript React.

A script to attempt keeping my code folder in sync between my laptop and workstation.

Automated private key infrastructure (PKI), Ansible managed certificate authority, server and client certificates.

Automated Multi Arch Docker Image Builds

Ansible Playbook for Emulating Raspberry Pi OS with KVM

While utilizing a stepper motor and gears.

We learn how we can develop microcontroller code using the Arduino CLI, compile it and the upload our code to the micrcontroller.

Controlling a stepper motor.

A look at setting using Rust for REST APIs and Embedded development.

How setting up IoT/HomeKit can teach you about network security.

Use fast user switching for hygienic separation between personal and professional accounts on a single laptop.

We take a look at the process and technology behind this site.