In praise of boring technology
The tools that last are rarely the exciting ones. Here is how to spend novelty on purpose.
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Local-first is a bet on ownership
Software that keeps your data on your own devices first, and syncs second.
Mira Holt··2 min read
One small server is enough
Most personal projects never need a cluster. They need care.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
Plain text will outlive us all
The most durable file format is the one you can read in any editor.
Mira Holt··2 min read
Backups you have never restored do not exist
A backup is only as good as the last time you restored from it.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
The ten-year test for tools
One question before adopting anything new saves a surprising number of rewrites.
Mira Holt··2 min read
Why RSS is still the best way to follow the web
An open, quiet and wonderfully uninteresting technology.
Mira Holt··2 min read
Terminal commands that have not changed in thirty years
Learn these once and they keep paying off on every machine you will ever touch.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
Monitoring a small server without a dashboard habit
You do not need twenty graphs. You need three questions answered automatically.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
Schedule your maintenance, or it will schedule you
Fifteen minutes a month on purpose beats a lost weekend by accident.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
SQLite is the database you already rely on
It ships inside phones, browsers and aircraft. It is probably the right choice for your next project too.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
Static sites are back, and they never really left
Pages built once and served as files are fast, cheap and nearly impossible to break.
Daniel Ren··2 min read
Your email address should live on your own domain
It costs less than a coffee a month and makes every future move painless.
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