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How we afford to merge N PRs per month There was a post by the founder of Bruno about our OSS stats in the past year.

How I keep hosting cheap If you've been around my portfolio a lot of things that I've hosted are either on vercel or on my VPS and I've had a post before that talks about how selfhosting might not be for you.

The Relaunch of TillWhen I kinda announced this on twitter a few days back but here's a tiny announcement for the readers.

The Fear Ahoy humans!

Don't forget the layers It’s easy to get tunnel vision when working on a codebase that you think is simple and straightforward.

Self hosting might not be for you I host quite a few things, both on Digital Ocean as droplets (their name for a compute instance) and on my Thinkpad for keeping things in my control.

Another one about build setups Part - II Hey, reaper back for Part II.

Another one about build setups Part - I Hey, the name's reaper.

Store I've been building and sharing random tools, scripts, and experiments for a while now.

Migrating from Cloud storage solutions A few weeks back, I started getting the 99% storage notification from Google Photos, which reminded me that I had a PiGallery server running on my Raspberry Pi that I hadn't used in a while.

Thinkpad I should add tags to better organise things on this blog, but for now, let's get to the topic at hand.

State of Preact 2025 (Q1) by reaper While there isn't an official "State of Preact", here are updates since the last time I mentioned working on the ecosystem.

Low traction products I wanted to write a rant, but I guess we are going to be wholesome for this one.

2024 Analysed Another 365 days done and I did a few things, failed at a few other things, figuring out some things and happy about some things.

Reminisce Often think of things I've made.

Thing's I've tried I often talk about things going wrong but let's talk about the things I've tried, no failure, no success, just things I found cool and tried to do.

Announcing Ping Announcing Ping, a simple no sign up solution for uptime notifications.

remember Do one thing at a time Learn to listen and learn to ask questions It's okay to build things for yourself and not have any users Build for learning over earning Help people as much as you can Learn to obsess over quality Build at your own pace and…

Managing Site Uptime and dealing with the state of urgency We've had a our fair share of down time with the side projects that I build and since there's not a lot of users the downtime mostly goes unnoticed unless I need the app for something.

One a Month This is a simple addition to the previous post Re: On hobbies, side projects, and money.

Asahi Linux Fedora Checklist $ -> Normal user mode $!

Re: On hobbies, side projects, and money A recent post from Manuel Moreale (On hobbies, side projects, and money) made me realise that the boundary between side project and hobbies in my case is very thin.

Faux Javascript I wouldn't be the first to think of a language that could be functional and compile to JS and I probably won't be the last one.

The Pixel 3a No, this isn't a review for the Pixel 3a.

Making something

A Failure We talk so much about success and celebrating it and we forget that there is a big hidden part behind it.

The barelyhuman.xyz crash I don't know how long the site's have been down since I haven't had the chance to work on any of my public projects.

Updates (May 2024) A few things happened this month and we are now done with whatever work I had outside of my development life.

I rewrote Alvu Reader's who've been around might know about the tool that builds this website.

FossFox and it's shutdown The job market isn't a fun place for most people, I personally had a hard time looking for one before I joined NearForm and the fact of the matter is that it didn't matter what my resume had or how skilled I might be cause I didn…

Poor man's fuzzy search Been a while since I suggested how to do things or what alternatives exist for a particular problem.

Updates April 2024 Haven't posted for a while now...

I circled back to Preact I've mentioned about liking arrowjs and working with it for simple and straight forward web apps with minimal interaction.

My Framework Space 2023 - 2024 What is the one thing that the web dev worlds has too much of?

Personality In a Webpage Websites are a beautiful concept, being able to make art using digital pixels and content is something I really wish more people could do and a lot of people are working on making websites easy for people as well.

The Decent Developer Over the years, this post has taken a different form everytime I wished to write about it.

Announcing arrow-render-to-string It's rare for me to build something for the external world but here's a package I ended up building while working on another project which I'll talk about later.

Programming Languages I like Disclaimer: Not going to declare a "best programming language" here, you can find that drama pretty much all over the web If you don't know me, short context about stuff I do when I'm bored.

Multiple XCode version on Fastlane This is a short write up on how to have multiple Xcode versions on your local CI without using vagrant images and virtual boxes.

Hate and Responsibility Disclaimer: None of this is with regards to anything that has happened to me, I've just been a witness to it.

Moving from PM2 and Nginx to Traefik I use pm2 and Caddy or in complicated apps nginx to manage my personal projects.

Me and Numbers I announced rawjs.xyz the past week and well, due to the nature of where it's heading as a project, I had to add analytics to it.

Typing routine I'm no typing speed expert, nor am I the fastest typer in the world.

Announcing rawjs.xyz Tiny post.

Docker Docker has been a part of my life for about 4.5 years now, it started as an experiment to be able to run a simple postgres instance locally and not for it's intended purpose of creating reusable app containers.

An Imposter Most skills have an easier progression to start with, and as you get better the harder progressions get easier to pick up.

My Craft Every developer I envy has a particular craft, some like designing really cool interactions.

The Change I've always been the kind to be able to help others with things I understood and it's never profitable when you are of that mentality.

Shutting down TillWhen 3 Years...

Ignoring Backend Productivity in JS This isn't a rant but more on the lines of the thing I'm struggling with.