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TL;DR This site is deliberately boring infrastructure for a reason: Hugo generates static HTML with the PaperMod theme. Terraform manages AWS (S3, CloudFront, Route53, ACM). GitHub Actions and self-hosted k3s runners deploy on every push to main. An AI pipeline (Bedrock + a Python script) drafts articles into Hugo page bundles and opens PRs for review. There’s no dynamic backend, no database, no server to maintain. The AWS bill is ~$30/month. This post is a tour of the machine that prints the other posts. ...

TL;DR I don’t pay for stock photos and I don’t open Canva. Every raster image on this blog is generated on a Mac Studio sitting three feet from me, by asking Claude Code to call a generate_image MCP tool that wraps ComfyUI. The pipeline is: prompt → ComfyUI (MPS) → PNG on disk → upload_media.py → S3 → CloudFront → a Markdown reference in the post. It costs $0 per image, takes ~15 seconds, and the whole thing is repeatable because the prompt and settings live in the commit history. ...