Welcome to Innerspace — a personal space for thoughts, notes, and explorations.
An Off-Grid, Tech Blog
What if you could run a blog on 1W of power, served over 4G from a solar-charged Raspberry Pi Zero?
As software engineers, we spend most of our time in a world of virtually infinite cloud resources, where hard limits have been replaced by elastic bills and layers of abstraction (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) that keep us far from the hardware. It’s easy to lose track of what’s possible with very little.
How This Blog Was Built
This blog didn’t start with a IDE or a terminal. It started with a conversation.
I sat down with Crush — an agentic AI coding assistant that runs in the CLI — and described what I wanted: a personal blog called Innerspace, hosted on thylong.com, built with Hugo and the monochrome theme, served by Redbean, containerized with Docker, and deployed to a k3s cluster.
Why this stack, specifically? As a Go developer, I’ve long admired spf13’s work — Hugo is a remarkable piece of engineering, and choosing it felt natural. Similarly, I went with Redbean from the start because Justine’s work on the Cosmopolitan project is genuinely amazing. The idea of a single binary that runs anywhere, no runtime needed — that resonates with how I think about infrastructure. I plan to host this blog somewhere else at some point, but more on that in a later post.