Four Ways to Deploy a Bun Server
Slim, distroless, alpine, or a compiled single binary — benchmarked on a dedicated amd64 host under cgroup limits. The base image turned out not to matter at all, and it took me two wrong results to find that out.
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John Fay
Staff Software Engineer building full-stack products and AI-powered systems.
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Recent Posts
View all →Ditching the Theme Toggle: System Theme Detection in Astro
How I built system theme detection for my portfolio — an inline script for flash prevention, React hooks for reactive switching, and Shiki dual-theme syntax highlighting.
Writing a Geocoding API in Go (Coming from TypeScript)
What it's like switching from TypeScript to Go for an API project — the good, the painful, and the surprisingly ergonomic PostGIS queries.
Projects
View all →Recto
An OCR API that returns word-level geometry, not just a wall of text — plus the dashboard, API keys, and metered plans needed to sell it. One Go binary, SQLite, no external services in the request path.
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All Pau
Privacy-first AI scribe — record any conversation, get structured notes (SOAP, sales, 1:1, interviews). Audio stays on-device; AI runs in your browser, on the free tier, or against your own API key.
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Just PDF
A PDF signing app with PKCS#11 smart card signature integration, built with Bun, Electrobun, and React.
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