Lance Keay

LanceKeay

Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer. I build and run web systems for a living, and write up the AI tools and self-hosted software I put through real work.

Available for contract work from January 2027.

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  1. Market report 2 Nov 2026

    AI token market, November 2026

    Flagship prices held still; the middle of the market kept getting cheaper.

  2. Keep running 26 Oct 2026

    Coolify after six months on my own hardware

    The self-hosted deploy panel I stopped thinking about, which is the point.

  3. Worth a weekend 12 Oct 2026

    A week with a terminal coding agent on a ten-year-old codebase

    Fast on the boring eighty per cent; the rest still needs someone who knows the system.

    Sample listing; full post not on this build.

  4. Keep running 21 Sep 2026

    Backups I actually restored: restic, a NAS and one bad afternoon

    A backup is a hypothesis until you have restored from it. Test the restore.

    Sample listing; full post not on this build.

Contract, remote or UK on-site

Need someone who can build the app and run the infrastructure under it?

I take on contract work across TypeScript and Python back ends, CI/CD, containers and cloud cost clean-ups. Read the CV, then send a few lines about the problem.

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