Xe Iaso
Senior Technophilosopher - Ottawa, CAN
I'm Xe Iaso, I'm a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. I live in Ottawa with my husband and I do developer relations professionally. I am an avid writer for my blog, where I have over 400 articles. I regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for my own amusement.
Recent Articles
- - Follow me on Bluesky!
- - Nomadic Infrastructure Design for AI Workloads
- - Hello again, Kubernetes
- - My first deploys for a new Kubernetes cluster
- - The return of Stealth Mountain
- - "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
- - Docker builds over SSH
- - Making home cooking easier with Cooktok
Notable Publications
- How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing Website
An article summarizing how easy it is to make a webpage into an installable Progressive Web App using APIs available in the most commonly used browsers. - Palisade: Version Bumping at Scale in CI
The release post for Palisade, a tool to automate version bumping, release tagging and more. - An epic treatise on DNS, magical and otherwise
A deep dive into all of the problems that DNS has at scale and how Tailscale makes most of those problems go away, with the rest of them being easier in comparison. - Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale
A brief history of the developer relations team at Tailscale and how I found myself creating it. I cover one of my largest internal demons and how I managed to wield it as a force of empowerment rather than a limiting force of pain. - Using Tailscale without Using Tailscale
An award-winning April Fools Day post describing how you can use Tailscale via Headscale via Tailscale Funnel. This post is notable for demonstrating all five of the Tailscale company values at the same time. - How I Fly
A post about how I use Fly.io to host my personal website and its supporting infrastructure.
Highlighted Projects
- The h Programming Language - An esoteric programming language that compiles to WebAssembly
- Olin - WebAssembly on the server
- Printer Facts - Useful facts about printers
- waifud - A VM manager for my homelab cluster
- When Then Zen - Meditation instructions in plain English
- x - A monorepo of my experiments, toy programs and other interesting things of that nature.
- Xeact - My personal JavaScript femtoframework for high productivity development
- Xesite - The backend and templates for this website
- Xess - My personal CSS framework
Quick Links
Looking for someone for your team? Check here.
DockerGitGoRustCDevOpsHerokuWebAssemblyLuaMindfulnessNixNixOSHTTP/2UbuntuAlpine LinuxGraphVizJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLitePostgreSQLDudeismTechnical writingEmacsContinuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery