Posts
Notes on what I built, measured, or broke.
2026
- 20 Junpost
Add a Swap partition to your VPS
My deployments were failing on Coolify Hetzner VPS. Adding a swap fixed it
- 1 Junpost
envault: A Boring Little Vault for .env Files
Why I wanted a tiny encrypted local vault for per-repo .env files instead of shell hooks, Git-level secret storage, or a full password-store workflow.
- 13 Aprpost
Building EMLVM: A Single-Instruction Machine for All Math
Just like NAND gates can build any Boolean logic circuit, the EML operator can build any elementary math function. We built a VM to run it.
2021
- 1 Decpost
A Software Tale
In this article, I will try to explain how I got here, and some of the challenges that someone that loves software development will face.

Marco Iurman