Dreams of Code

I May Have Just Broken Standup (Using n8n) No scrum masters (nor bananas) were harmed during the writing of this article. 🍌 It's no secret that I love developing software.

Solving the One Thing That Keeps Me Up at Night in Software Development One of the only real things in software development that keeps me up at night is downtime—sometimes quite literally, as anyone who's received a 2 a.m.

10 Useful CLI Apps You’ve Probably Never Heard Of If you're like me, you probably enjoy working in the terminal.

Why I'm No Longer Using Stripe (And What I'm Using Instead) When it comes to building SaaS products, one of the most important components is the ability to accept payments.

Coolify vs Dokploy: Why I Chose One Over the Other For the past few months, I've been deploying the majority of my production services to a VPS through the use of Dokploy.

json/v2 is Fixing Many of Go's JSON Quirks Go 1.25 has finally dropped and with it we're seeing a number of new changes.

10 CLI Apps That Will Transform Your Terminal Workflow When it comes to writing code, I've been working in the terminal now for just over 10 years, and it's perhaps one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Better Auth is so good that I almost switched programming languages When it comes to building APIs and services, my go-to language of choice is well, Go.

This is Perhaps My Favorite Use of A.I.

The Go Embed Package: A Hidden Gem That's More Useful Than You Think Over the past couple of years, we've had a number of big features make their way into the Go programming language.

This Weird Keyboard Technique Has Improved the Way I Type For the longest time, I chose not to use a tiling window manager.

SQLc: The Perfect Tool for Those Who Don't Like ORMs When it comes to working with databases, I believe there's two types of software developers: those that like to use ORMs and those who prefer to write SQL.

Nix is My Favorite Package Manager for macOS Homebrew is the most popular package manager on macOS, and for good reason.

Setting Up a Production-Ready VPS: It's Actually Easier Than You Think Recently, I've been working on a brand new micro SaaS and having a lot of fun doing so.

This Homelab Setup is My Favorite One Yet Hosting my own services using a homelab has been an absolute dream.

Advanced HTTP Routing in Go: Everything You Need from the Standard Library Since Go 1.22 was released, the net/http package has evolved into a comprehensive routing solution that eliminates the need for third-party dependencies.

Zoxide Has Forever Improved the Way I Navigate in the Terminal For the longest time, I've used cd exclusively for navigating in the terminal.

Tmux Has Forever Changed the Way I Write Code Tmux is perhaps the one piece of software that's had the biggest impact on the way I write code.