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Articles worth the scroll in your quiet tab
Opinionated-but-soft takes on tooling, sovereignty, spreadsheets that became critical systems overnight, and reminding ourselves that humility ages better than hot takes. Every page links onward so wandering feels encouraged, not chore-like.
Hosting, data, sovereignty
Rolling your own—or only partly rolling your own—with eyes open.
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Hosting & deploying local services
Quiet paths from laptop experiments to LAN-friendly uptime without inventing heroic ops.
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Controlling your data & workflow
Friction that saves you versus friction that hides risk—where we draw squiggly lines.
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When not to self-host
Hero projects that could have been spreadsheets (and nobody would have cried).
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Privacy vs convenience in practice
Snack-level trade-offs, not manifestos—mostly about notification fatigue honestly.
Integrations, code, OSS
Stories from the seams where vendors refuse to fist-bump politely.
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Integrating services together
Glue tiers, escalation ladders, documenting the scary bits before coffee wears off.
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Benefits of owning your code
Comfort with forks, nightmares with mystery binaries—gentle realism.
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Why open source can feel like daylight
Transparency, embarrassment-as-a-feature, communal bug whack-a-mole.
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Open vs closed calm debate notes
Neither religion wins; context does. Receipts appreciated.
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What is code worth? Script glue vs integration depth
How we price curiosity hours without pretending law school happened.
Shipping, resilience, adulthood for apps
Operational empathy for teams allergic to melodrama dashboards.
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Backups & occasional restore drills
Comfort food for people who swear “tomorrow morning” backups exist.
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Observability on a modest budget
Alerts that respect sleep schedules; logs humans read without squint rituals.
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CI for cozy teams
Smoke tests that flirt with boring on purpose—not every pipeline needs cosplay YAML.
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Documentation as product empathy
Future-you fan mail disguised as checklists plus tone that does not punish beginners.
Money, posture, rotations
Thought experiments with disclaimers where lawyers would insist on capital letters.
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Monetization shapes for indie apps
Comfortable asking price math, humility about advice-not-legal-ness.
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Cost of cozy vendor lock-in
Oxytocin-heavy dashboards that eventually invoice your nervous system.
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API keys & rotation rhythms
Stories about expired tokens at 9pm—not judgment, mostly solidarity.
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Security without freezing up
Snackable threat modeling for teams allergic to acronym storms—see OWASP for depth.
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Choosing boring-ish tech deliberately
Comfort recipes that age like cast iron, not TikTok cookware.
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Gradual migration patterns
Strangling dragons politely while payroll still runs Mondays.
Want a human to riff with? contact@easygoinproductions.com hears even half-sketched riddles—we answer slower when life sings loud but we do answer.