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LLMs & Information Decay

Information Decay is when LLM-polished text drifts from the original truth as it gets summarized and rewritten and small “plausible” assumptions slip in, then harden into facts because the output looks authoritative.

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Build fast and break things: A lesson in Archeology

by Alison Alva

My infrastructure started as a homelab. Replacing ingress-nginx was the moment it had to explain itself.

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Learning front end on the infra stack!

by Alison Alva

I mostly live in Devops/Infra, Embedded, and Security - front end is not my specialty but this website seems alright? I already built so much of the i...

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Moving Cloudflare tunnels from E2Edge to E2E

by Alison Alva

Using Cert-manager, LetsEncrypt, Cloudflare ZT tunnels, and ingress-nginx to create E2E TLS for an on-prem K8s stack.

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Cloudflare doesn't like chunked uploads, but their workers can help

by Alison Alva

Cloudflare breaks headers on streamed data but you can utilize their workers to capture and assemble that data - up to a point.

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Ant Buffers: A look into my ecosystem

by Alison Alva

A brief rundown of one of the internal building blocks I've built for my embedded designs. Deterministic device-agnostic buffer primitives I created t...

EmbeddedC++IoT
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LogAnywhere: Logging router for resource-constrained devices

by Alison Alva

I made a device-agnostic logging router for use on embedded devices with resource constraints. It's pretty useful.

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