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#prehistory

The Terraform-Kubernetes-Ansible-PKI-ACME pipe that started this whole thing

The 2021 prototype that turned out to be the first draft of everything I've been doing with self-hosted infrastructure ever since — Terraform for the cloud, Kubernetes for the runtime, Ansible for the configuration, PKI for the trust, ACME for the cert lifecycle. Five letters, one pipe.

B9Lab exercise 1, with the lessons it actually taught

A 5 KB Solidity exercise from B9Lab's Ethereum developer course. Not a notable artifact on its own. Worth a note because it's the first time I sat with a smart-contract language and felt the specific category of caution it demands.

NVIDIA's 2017 AI Summer School, in the form of preserved notebooks

An archive of notebooks from NVIDIA's 2017 AI Summer School. Predates the current LLM-shaped attention economy by a decade. Worth keeping for what it shows about what people thought "AI" meant when transformers were a year old and 'attention' was the new mechanism nobody was sure about yet.

A profile page at github.io, kept for historical reasons

The default GitHub Pages profile site I set up in 2017. Modest, unmaintained, and exactly the kind of artifact that proves how long this account has been doing this kind of work. Not interesting on its own. Interesting as a date stamp.