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// ADVENTURES IN CODE, INFRASTRUCTURE & PIXELS //
▶ PRESS STARTWelcome, adventurer. I'm Paz — software engineer, homelab tinkerer, and part-time pixel wrangler. I write about building real software in the real world: Elixir, Phoenix, AWS, infrastructure automation, and whatever side quest catches my attention this week. Sometimes that's a game in Godot. Sometimes it's a Proxmox cluster at 2am. No wrong answers.
Wrangling the Ash Framework in a Real Phoenix App
The docs said it was simple. The docs lied. Here's what actually happens when you push Ash into production.
Lambda + CloudWatch Logs: A Field Guide to Not Going Insane
Building a log query Lambda that doesn't make you want to delete your AWS account. Lessons from the trenches.
Why I Ditched LXC for Proxmox VMs (And Never Looked Back)
LXC containers are great until they're not. A honest retrospective on the limitations that finally broke me.
Building a Tiny Dungeon Crawler as a Burnt-Out Engineer's Therapy
What happens when you trade JIRA tickets for tile maps. Spoiler: it's the best decision I've made in months.
Phoenix LiveView: Real-time Admin Panels Without the Headache
A walkthrough of building reactive partner management UI using LiveView, the way it was meant to be done.
GitHub Actions Optimizations That Actually Saved Us 40% Build Time
Caching, matrix builds, smart triggers — the boring stuff that pays off big over thousands of pipelines.