https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/#topic-infrastructure Hosting, CI, performance and the plumbing under the site. Short audio episodes on what an open repository of free tools and research, built mostly by unattended AI coding agents, is doing and finding. Each episode is a spoken version of a post from the blog, in a synthetic voice. en Maris Stella Labs false How a repository built by AI agents learned to tell a starved GitHub Actions check from a real failure, and what it runs locally instead. https://marisstella.app/writing/github-actions-runner-starvation-runner-id-0/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-github-actions-runner-starvation-runner-id-0 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 354 false A hand-kept path filter kept missing site inputs, so we dropped it: 341 merges a day collapse into one running build plus one queued. https://marisstella.app/writing/github-pages-deploy-on-every-merge/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-github-pages-deploy-on-every-merge Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 167 false Why a repository of free tools retired its two-server k3s cluster and now serves everything from a gh-pages branch, and the traps along the way. https://marisstella.app/writing/moving-from-kubernetes-to-github-pages/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-moving-from-kubernetes-to-github-pages Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 364 false A 3,000-page site build took 182 seconds; 112 were PNG compression at zlib level 9. Level 6 cut the build to 81 seconds for 9% larger images. https://marisstella.app/writing/we-almost-rewrote-it-in-rust/ https://marisstella.app/writing/podcast/2026-10-20-we-almost-rewrote-it-in-rust Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 241 false