writing

01

My 8GB MacBook Air Gave Up, So I Moved My Brain to the Cloud

Jul 2026

How I turned a struggling 8GB M1 Air into a thin client for a 32GB ARM machine on GCP — and the ghostty + tmux + Claude Code workflow that makes remote coding feel local.

02

LRC vs Reed-Solomon: Erasure Coding Trade-offs in Modern Object Storage

Mar 2026

Why systems like MinIO use Reed-Solomon while ACOS opts for Locally Repairable Codes to reduce reconstruction overhead. (This blog assumes you know what's MinIO, if not please go read about it.)

03

Ceph: A Viable Alternative Object Store

Mar 2026

Why Ceph’s RADOS architecture makes it a compelling alternative to MinIO.