Posts on Yogesh Lonkar

Claude and my stale posts

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0530

This is a first draft. I have used Claude on this blog for two days. I will come back to this post when I have used it for two months.

The stale posts Link to heading

This blog had five posts. The oldest was from 2021 and described hosting on AWS with Cloudflare for DNS. I have not used AWS for these sites in years. Two more were about my career, written in a hurry, and one of them said “currently leading” about a job I left in 2023. The other two were drafts I never finished.

Engineer: Chapter 2

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:13:20 +0100

Chapter 1 ended in 2017 with a Jenkins plugin and a wish to grow upward instead of sideways. This chapter covers the years since.

Production engineer Link to heading

My degree is in production engineering, not computer science. Production engineering is the study of processes: mass, batch, manual, tiered, any way of turning inputs into outputs with people and machines in between. Understanding a process and explaining it to the people inside it is the one skill from that degree I use every day.

Engineer: Chapter 1

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:33:37 +0100

I am an engineer from Pune, India. This is the first chapter of how I got here, written for the friends and colleagues who asked, and for anyone starting out with a gap in their record.

Writing this sharpened how I see those years. The first version was too blunt and got parts of my own story wrong, so I keep editing it.

The two missing years Link to heading

I graduated in 2011, two years later than planned. It did not bother me then and it does not now. People who learn it are surprised, so here is why.

Free static hosting with Cloudflare Pages, Terraform and GitHub Actions

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:23:49 +0200

TL;DR You have a static site and a domain. Cloudflare Pages serves it, Terraform sets up the hosting from a few files in your repo, R2 keeps Terraform’s memory, and GitHub Actions runs it all when you push. The bill is zero. The example repo walks through the setup one commit at a time.

I wrote the first version of this post in 2021. Since 2019 I had hosted a few sites for friends and family on AWS: S3 for files, CloudFront in front, Cloudflare for DNS only. Route53 charged half a dollar per domain per month, more than S3 and CloudFront together for sites that small. That post was about shaving that fee.