A blog again

This is the first post on starostka.io. I will write here about research infrastructure: the machines, the Nix that declares them, and the things that break between the two.

How it is built

The site is a SvelteKit app that renders every page at build time. Each post is a Markdown file named by its date, so this one is posts/2026-11-03-hello.md. Nix builds the site into an OCI image, and the image runs on a small Kubernetes cluster that is declared in the same repository as every other machine I run.

The deployment of the site is one binding:

{
  inventory.instances.blog = {
    service = "blog";
    roles.default.platforms.yutani.settings = { };
  };
}

What it measures

There is no analytics script on these pages. The readership page shows where posts were shared instead, from the public Hacker News, Lobsters and Reddit listings.¹1The blog server fetches those listings once an hour.

The feed is at /feed.xml.