There’s loads of discussions around tech debt, whether it’s a good analogy in the first place, how to avoid it, and how to strike the right balance between making something work versus making something right.…

Now that I have carved myself a little island on the internet, it means that I have a server facing the public web, which of course gets hit by pretty much anything that’s out there, whether it’s automated or not, malicious or not.…

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about ways to find a motivation lever to commit more into personal projects. It’s always been a challenge for me, to stay involved in a hobby project of some sort, despite the clear benefits.…

Ah, one of my favorite topics. Alright the title is a bit provocative, as in making something right doesn’t mean it’ll never work1, but you get the idea. When we build something, should we first aim for making it work?…

This is the second part of the little selfhosting adventure I embarked on when creating this blog. We’ve already covered how to create a website with Hugo, setup an instance at a cloud provider then spin up nginx to serve that website.…

While creating this blog, I thought this would be a good opportunity to self-host it instead of relying on a platform such as Gitlab Pages, or even a full-fledged blogging platform like Ghost.…

After contemplating this for some time, I’m finally getting into writing and publishing things on the internet. I won’t go down very far into the why yet, but let’s say it’s been itching for a while.…