Honest stories from building, shipping, and sometimes breaking things.
After running a resource curation site for three months, I realized readers needed depth over lists.
From DNS misconfiguration to environment variable leaks — a honest post-mortem of my first production deploy.
Not a list of trendy tools — the exact stack and workflow I use daily to ship small projects fast.
Traffic, costs, and what worked (and didn't) in month one.
Scope, stack, and workflow for shipping something real in 48 hours.
Four months, zero launch - what went wrong and what I'd do differently.
A real post-mortem of an outage, from alert to root cause.
Why I chose a platform over building custom email infrastructure.
A transparent monthly cost breakdown for two blogs and three side projects.