You're on some old computers and Raspberry Pis in my closet. This site runs on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster — autoscaling GitHub Actions runners (x86 + arm), in-cluster Harbor registry, Rook-Ceph storage, built with Rust (Foster), exposed via Cloudflare Tunnels.
Software engineer at Astranis on the network and payload software team — tools to operate and monitor micro GEO satellites.
Real per-request data — client IP, geo lookup, User-Agent, pod identity.
Real cluster telemetry — CPU/mem/disk/pod/node metrics, historical
24h series, Ceph health, network insights, GitOps status, backup Job
status, cloudflared tunnel stats, and the Claude audit log, all ported
from the real src/components/cluster_stats.rs. Most of
this is Prometheus-backed (PROMETHEUS_URL) — GitOps and
backup status go through the k8s API directly; network insights,
spike config, and the Claude audit log are Postgres-backed.
Real Postgres-backed visitor analytics — every request to this site is logged here.
Here is a programmatically generated lighthouse report for every deploy that gets kicked off as part of a k8s job for every new deploy of this site.
Real 3D orbital mechanics: the actual CelesTrak "active" TLE group
(~16,000 objects), real sgp4 propagation over a real
288-step/5-minute rolling 24h window — ported from the real
satellite_calculations.rs/satellite_renderer.rs/
satellite_tracker.rs. The WebGL2 shader/matrix/camera
pipeline is a line-for-line port. Propagation itself runs server-side
once per tick (shared by every visitor) instead of in-browser WASM —
see src/satellites.rs for why — and the client
interpolates smoothly between real snapshots.
Real screening: Hoots altitude-band pre-filter, true SGP4 propagation,
a 288-step/5-minute rolling 24h window scan for local distance minima,
ternary-search TCA refinement, rayon-parallelized pair scanning —
ported from the real src/components/conjunction.rs.
Persisted to the real conjunction_screenings/
conjunction_events tables. Foster only owns the button's
idle/started label; the real pass is a background job polled
independently (static/conjunction.js).
Plain requestAnimationFrame canvas; Foster owns run/pause/reset.
Seven algorithms racing from start (green) to end (amber) on the same
random 2048×2048 obstacle grid, each rendered via its own WebGL2
canvas (R8 state texture) — ported line-for-line from the real
src/components/path_search.rs. Foster owns run/pause and
the reset nonce; zoom/pan/follow and all seven algorithm runners are
plain client-side state, same as the real site's own local signals.
Explores without knowing the destination location.
Uses heuristics toward the destination to guide exploration.
Real photos served straight from the CDN.