December 7, 2025

Cloud hosting: databases

The classical way for running a database has always been very simple: you run your webserver and it hosts something like a LAMP stack, with the “M” being MySQL - you can substitute this with...

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November 23, 2025

Cloud hosting: transactional emails

For me the first "obvious" point where I moved away from self hosting too much was email, specifically delivering transactional emails. In the traditional world of running things myself I'd have a...

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November 9, 2025

Forms of debt: technical, strategic (and more?)

Discovered this article via freek.dev: https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-10-31-architectural-debt-is-not-just-technical-debt/ I find a lot of what he describes about the different forms of...

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November 2, 2025

Kagi and some observations about website content

For some time now I've been using kagi as my main search engine, it's great and there will be a whole post about this in the future. For now we're here because I want to share an observation relating...

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