https://blog.maksystems.org/ 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z Maxim Kotliar https://blog.maksystems.org/posts/down-the-rabbit-hole/ 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

First post. What this blog is and how it works.

<p>I keep starting projects, getting deep into them, and forgetting half of what I learned a month later. This blog fixes that. Each post is a note from whatever hole I&rsquo;m in at the moment.</p> <h2 id="what-to-expect">what to expect<a class="anchor" href="#what-to-expect" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2> <p>Short, practical posts about:</p> <ul> <li>running AI models locally</li> <li>embedded hardware and firmware</li> <li>Jinba</li> <li>the home lab</li> </ul> <p>No schedule. Posts appear when there&rsquo;s something worth writing down.</p> <h2 id="how-this-site-works">how this site works<a class="anchor" href="#how-this-site-works" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2> <p>It&rsquo;s a folder of Markdown files and a ~250 line Python script that turns them into plain HTML. No JavaScript, no trackers, no framework. It runs on my own hardware behind nginx.</p> <div class="hl"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1"># write</span> vim<span class="w"> </span>content/posts/2026-10-26-down-the-rabbit-hole.md <span class="c1"># build and preview</span> make<span class="w"> </span>serve </code></pre></div> <p>A post is just a file with a small header:</p> <div class="hl"><pre><span></span><code>--- title: Down the rabbit hole date: 2026-10-26 <span class="gu">tags: meta, homelab</span> <span class="gu">---</span> Text goes here. </code></pre></div> <p>That&rsquo;s it. Let&rsquo;s see how deep this goes.</p>