Hetzner & K8s
Infrastructure
Moving bolanos.dev to Hetzner
in progress
Building
small things,
in the open.
I'm Carlos Bolaños. I tinker on the odd weekend experiment — component libraries, Go scaffolding, small observability tools. Everything here is open-source.
6
Open-source repos
10+
Years shipping
Go·TS
Daily drivers
Latest posts
Quick reads on Go, React, and the craft of shipping.
Bennie-UITailwind & PandaCSS
Design Systems
Building Bennie-UI: a year of shipping a small design system
Oct 12, 2026·6 min read
CI/CDGitLab > GitHub
Tooling
Leaving GitHub: why I'm enjoying GitLab and CI/CD components
Oct 12, 2026·3 min read
setup.shCachyOS
Linux
My setup.sh in CachyOS, btw
Oct 13, 2026·4 min read
My AIDev Workflow
AI
My AI development workflow
in progress
Currently shipping
Seven projects in active development. Click any card to jump to the repo — merge requests welcome.
PROJECT / 01
● LiveBennie-UI
A React component library built on PandaCSS. Buttons, inputs, toasts, tables, headings — all tokenized, themable, and typed. Used to build this site.
React·TypeScript·PandaCSS
Repo →PROJECT / 02
● LiveGitLab Components
Reusable GitLab CI/CD building blocks — Node/Bun frontends on Cloudflare (components-node, components-workers), Go services and nginx images (components-go, components-nginx).
GitLab CI·Bun·Wrangler
Repo →PROJECT / 03
● Livego-ajax
Opinionated Go project scaffolding. Spin up a production-ready HTTP service with config, logging, middleware, tests, and Docker in seconds.
Go·Mux·Docker
Repo →PROJECT / 04
● Livego-ajax-telemetry
Drop-in middleware that instruments every gorilla/mux route with Prometheus metrics: request counts, latency histograms, status-code labels. Zero config.
Go·Prometheus·Metrics
Repo →PROJECT / 05
● WIPgo-snacks
Small, composable Go utilities I reach for daily.
Go
Repo →PROJECT / 06
● WIPquery-builder
A type-safe SQL query builder for Go without an ORM.
Go·SQL
Repo →PROJECT / 07
● ForeverNeoVim Config
My personal nvim setup. Always evolving.
Lua·nvim
Repo →