Every branch gets its own stack: building preview environments
Replacing permanent staging, UAT and development environments with ephemeral per branch stacks, the isolation problems that forced real decisions, and what it costs.
Tooling
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Building Bloat: a macOS developer runtime manager with Go and Tauri
Why we started building Bloat, why Docker stopped fitting our local workflow, and how the daemon, desktop app, DNS, TLS, and signed runtime manifests came together.
Self-hosting first: why we replaced Pusher, Sentry, Algolia, and S3
Why I increasingly prefer self-hosting when the protocol is open, the service is understandable, and ownership buys real control without forcing client rewrites.
Self-hosting Sockudo: dropping Pusher with zero per-message cost
The full story of replacing Pusher with Sockudo, why protocol compatibility made this migration a config change, and what a year of running your own WebSocket server actually looks like.