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Basta’s Notes
My regularly scheduled notes. Click to read Basta’s Notes, by Matt Basta, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
- Posts
- 46 from 22 Oct 2022 to 29 Jul 2026
- Posting
- monthly (10 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
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2026 9
- AI Homelab Part 3: A self-improving agent
- Making a cache cluster more effective
- SaaS has to be better than custom
- AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
- Not apparent
- A societal failure on all levels
- AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement
- Happier development
- The imminent risk of vibe coding
2025 6
2024 4
2023 21
- No sacred masterpieces
- Read every error. You can't read every error.
- My event-driven life
- 🌈 Pride 2023 #2: Horoscopes
- 🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles
- Things nobody taught me about money
- That time I broke login at Box
- 25 terrible engineer interview questions
- Go fix your bugs
- Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news
- I ask three questions
- The state with the fancy plates
- What have I been up to lately?
- Microwaves piss me off
- The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over
- We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media.
- Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza
- Don't make me read your PR description
- 33
- Our pathological inability to do "done"
- Thinking about performance