Roy Portas - Writing

A practical breakdown of the four test types I use on every production app, with tools and trade-offs for each.

A reference for getting Coolify running and configuring apps: server setup, swap, OrbStack local dev, and deploying via volumes or ports.

How I wired up Drizzle ORM with Bun's native SQLite driver.

How I set up automated deployments to a VPS without a public IP address, using a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner.

The directory structure I use for TanStack Start apps, with explanations of each convention and why the routing layer is laid out the way it is.

Common commands for interacting with Homebrew, the macOS package manager

Why I replaced fontsource's auto-injected @font-face rules with manual declarations to trim unnecessary @font-face rules and load Latin-only subsets.

How I set up PostHog in a statically prerendered TanStack Start site, covering SSR-safe initialisation, SPA pageview tracking, and proxying through Vercel.

How I replaced the auto-generated sitemap in TanStack Start with a hand-rolled server route to get real lastmod dates and per-URL priority control.

How I built a realistic SSR load test rig for TanStack Start, wired up prom-client for Prometheus metrics, and what the results looked like under load.

How to configure TanStack Start's static prerender target and deploy it correctly to Vercel, including the non-obvious vercel.json settings that make routing work.

A deep dive into the options for handling Markdown content in Next.js applications

A quick guide on how to use GitHub Models with the AI SDK

My current macOS development setup guide, covering installing apps and configuring system settings

Every couple years I like to redesign my portfolio using the trending technologies in the web development community.

I've recently been working with Next.js and React Server Components, which provides a nice way to build fullstack web applications quickly.

I was looking at a simple way to do GitOps with Nomad for my Homelab.

I found some tricks with getting a Nomad dev environment working reliably on Mac, particularly a Apple Silicon Mac.

Setting up webapps can be time consuming, particularly when the goal is to build a quick proof of concept of something

I like to change my color theme based on the environment I'm working in, this guide outlines how to setup single-click dark mode switching on macOS.

My notes on using devcontainers for frontend development

I wanted to install Linux on a portable SSD I had and make it bootable from my Macbook, so it needed UEFI support.

CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) allows access to resources from other domains, a good use case for this is a web app trying to fetch data from an API on another domain.