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Ship Your MVP from Home: Ditch Expensive Servers with Cloudflare Tunnel

You have a powerful computer sitting under your desk. Meanwhile, you're paying $50–200/month to run your MVP on someone else's computer. Let's fix that. This guide walks through how I set up a home server with Cloudflare Tunnel to host multiple web

Stop Losing Your tmux Layouts: A Simple Tool to Save and Restore Your Terminal Setups

If you're a tmux power user, you know the pain. You've spent time crafting the perfect workspace—multiple windows for different projects, panes split just right, each one positioned in its correct directory. Then your computer restarts, or you close the terminal by accident, and it&

Becoming Japanese for a Day: My Tokyo Kimono Experience

The Threshold There's a red gate in Tokyo that changed how I see clothes. Not a metaphorical gate. An actual one—a torii, vermillion and weathered, standing in a bamboo garden where I stood wrapped in fabric that took 400 years to perfect. The Japanese call the color

FastAPI Blueprint 03: Core FastAPI Structure

Learn how to structure FastAPI apps for flexibility so you can plug in new features without breaking the system.

FastAPI Blueprint 01: Intro and Architecture Overview

Kick off the series by understanding what we’re building, why microservices matter, and how each component fits into the bigger picture.

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