Anil Chauhan
Backend developer. I write mostly Go, run a homelab, and post about Linux and the tools I use.
Recent posts
- I built a webhook debugger for local development
webhooklocal gives you a private URL that never changes, stores every webhook, forwards it to localhost, and lets you edit and replay any request. It is in private beta and I am looking for testers.
- I rebuilt this site from scratch in Go
This site ran on Hugo for years. Now it is a small Go server with templ, HTMX and SQLite in one binary, with an admin page where I write posts in the browser.
- How I run omp on my laptop
omp is the terminal agent I do most of my work in. Obsidian is where it keeps its notes, and omp-lb is a small local panel for seeing what it is doing. This is how the three fit together.
- Querying exported CSVs with DuckDB
DuckDB is an in-process SQL database like SQLite, but columnar and built for analytics. I use it to run SQL straight over CSV exports on my laptop without loading anything first.
- Cheap centralized logs with Loki and S3
One Helm chart puts Kubernetes pod logs and the CloudWatch logs from RDS, Lambda and ElastiCache into Grafana Loki, with S3 as the store. A year of retention costs a dollar or two a month.