Marco Iurman

Posts

Notes on what I built, measured, or broke.

2026

  1. 20 Junpost

    Add a Swap partition to your VPS

    My deployments were failing on Coolify Hetzner VPS. Adding a swap fixed it

    swap, vps, hetzner, coolify

  2. 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.

    cli, security, zig, environment

  3. 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.

    compilers, math, terminal, python

2021

  1. 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.

    career, story, development, hacking