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I run 63 Docker containers on a 16GB AWS instance serving 100+ users across 48 services. Here's how I keep it running for $87/month when SaaS would cost $1,200.
Churches run on free tools until the hidden costs catch up. Here's what actually matters in church management software.
After a decade building integrations with ADP, Workday, Okta, and Entra ID, I've learned that SCIM is a guideline, not a spec. Here's what actually works.
Three years ago my homelab was a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole and a Plex server. Today it's a multi-node cluster handling production workloads for paying clients. Here'
I fine-tuned a 20-billion parameter model on my Mac Studio M3 Ultra and took validation loss from 1.85 to 0.79. Here's what I learned about running serious AI workloads on Apple Silicon.
I spend most of my professional life connecting systems that were never designed to talk to each other. After doing this for years, I've landed on a framework
Last month I built a full-featured SaaS platform in about 48 hours. Not a landing page. A working application with auth, multi-tenant data isolation, Stripe billing, and a dozen functional
I've been running large language models locally for a few months now, and honestly? I'm not going back to API-only workflows. The Cost Math Cloud AI
🧠 Context / Why I Did This For the past few months, I’ve been building Steadfast , a personal productivity app that’s been equal parts fun, frustrating, and eye-opening. Like most
🧠 Context / Why I Did This I've always believed that tools should serve people, not the other way around. And as a developer who's both deeply technical