How This Blog Was Built
This blog didn’t start with a IDE or a terminal. It started with a conversation.
I sat down with Crush — an agentic AI coding assistant that runs in the CLI — and described what I wanted: a personal blog called Innerspace, hosted on thylong.com, built with Hugo and the monochrome theme, served by Redbean, containerized with Docker, and deployed to a k3s cluster.
Why this stack, specifically? As a Go developer, I’ve long admired spf13’s work — Hugo is a remarkable piece of engineering, and choosing it felt natural. Similarly, I went with Redbean from the start because Justine’s work on the Cosmopolitan project is genuinely amazing. The idea of a single binary that runs anywhere, no runtime needed — that resonates with how I think about infrastructure. I plan to host this blog somewhere else at some point, but more on that in a later post.
2026/04/10 ·
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