https://lx8labs.com/ Field notes from the lab. DevOps post-mortems, AI experiments, paper breakdowns. Once or twice a month. en-us Sun, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7157081?v=4 https://lx8labs.com/ © 2013–2026 Lx8 Labs · Founded by Alexei Ferreira contact@lx8labs.com (Alexei Ferreira) Hand-rolled — lx8labs.com https://lx8labs.com/insights/13-years-consulting-lessons.html https://lx8labs.com/insights/13-years-consulting-lessons.html Sun, 11 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Alexei Ferreira Consulting What I'd tell my 2013 self about running a one-person DevOps consultancy. Sell outcomes not hours, the first two weeks decide everything, charge for thinking, write the runbook before the deploy, hire your replacement, and three more. https://lx8labs.com/insights/3d-algorithm-visualizer.html https://lx8labs.com/insights/3d-algorithm-visualizer.html Sun, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Alexei Ferreira Engineering A single 2,000-line HTML file. Three.js, ~350 lines of CSS, vanilla JavaScript. No npm, no bundler, no framework. Hosted on GitHub Pages for $0. The result is faster, smaller, and arguably better than what most teams ship after sprinting through React + Vite for a week. Here's the case for choosing constraints.