Programming

Why Soft Deletes Are Breaking Your SaaS Database (And How to Fix It) 🛑

The Soft Delete Trap In Laravel, enabling SoftDeletes is as easy as adding a trait to your Eloquent model and a deleted_at timestamp to your migration…

Cloudflare R2 vs S3: VPS-Friendly Object Storage

If you’re deploying apps on a VPS, cloudflare r2 vs s3 quickly becomes less about “features” and more about what hurts at scale: egress, latency, and …

Add identity-based pricing to your MCP server in 5 minutes

The pain You ship an MCP tool. A week later you've got two hundred callers a day. Maybe five of them are people. The rest are scrapers, rate-limit pro…

I built 33 free browser gaming tools with Next.js, Here's what I learned about SEO and PageSpeed

A few days ago I launched toolsbracker.com — 33 free browser-based gaming benchmark tools. CPS test, reaction time, WPM test, aim trainer, memory test…

Dart Sealed Classes Guide — Type-Safe State Management with Pattern Matching

Dart Sealed Classes Guide — Type-Safe State Management with Pattern Matching Dart 3's sealed classes are the evolution of enums. They restrict subtypi…

Escaping the Containment Trap: Building Agentic Contact Centers with Amazon Connect and Bedrock

If you look at the operational dashboards of most modern contact centers, the metrics often paint a comforting picture: high containment rates and def…

Indie SaaS Monetization — Hard Paywall vs Freemium vs Usage-Based Pricing

Indie SaaS Monetization — Hard Paywall vs Freemium vs Usage-Based Pricing The hardest decision in indie SaaS isn't building the product — it's decidin…

Supabase Database Functions Guide — Serverless Logic with RPC and PL/pgSQL

Supabase Database Functions Guide — Serverless Logic with RPC and PL/pgSQL Supabase Database Functions let you move complex business logic into Postgr…

The Hidden Cost of AI-Assisted Coding: When Your Codebase Becomes a Black Box

There's a specific kind of technical debt that doesn't show up in your linter, doesn't trigger a failing test, and doesn't announce itself until the t…

Flutter Local Storage Guide — SharedPreferences vs Hive vs SQLite

Flutter Local Storage Guide — SharedPreferences vs Hive vs SQLite Choosing the right local storage solution in Flutter directly impacts performance an…

War Story: Saving $200k/Year on AWS by Migrating 50% of Workloads to Graviton4 with Terraform 1.10

In Q3 2024, our 14-person platform engineering team at a mid-sized fintech slashed annual AWS spend by $203,417 — a 34% reduction — by migrating 52% o…

SQL Basics: Talking to a Database for the First Time

Every company you will ever work for stores its data in a database. Not CSV files. Not Excel sheets. A database. Tables of users. Tables of transactio…

Product Hunt Launch Complete Guide — Indie Dev Strategy for Day-1 Top 10

Product Hunt Launch Complete Guide — Indie Dev Strategy for Day-1 Top 10 Product Hunt is the go-to community for discovering new products. With the ri…

I Built a Text Similarity Checker: Compare Two Texts Instantly in Your Browser

Recently I was working on my online tools website toolsonline.run and decided to build a Text Similarity Checker — a tool that compares two texts and …

n8n's 5 Hidden Workflow Patterns Nobody Teaches (186K Stars, But 90% Use It Wrong)

The Tool Nobody's Talking About (But Everyone Should Be) When I tell developers about n8n -- a workflow automation platform with over 186,000 GitHub s…

Idea for Managing Policies Across Nearly 1,000 AWS Organizations — A Reseller's Perspective

"A Note from the Author" I work in the Technical Support division of an AWS reseller operating under the AWS Solution Provider Program in Japan. This …

Cold Starts Are Dead

It never fails. Every time I talk about serverless, someone pushes back with the cold start argument. I still see it in forums, in blog comments, in a…

Supabase Edge Functions Complete Guide — Serverless APIs with Deno & TypeScript

Supabase Edge Functions Complete Guide — Serverless APIs with Deno & TypeScript Supabase Edge Functions run on the Deno runtime at the global edge…

How to Set Up Full-Text Search with Meilisearch 1.5 and Next.js 15 for Documentation

\n Documentation search is the silent killer of developer experience: 68% of users abandon docs sites that take more than 2 seconds to return search r…

Serverless Data Processing: Azure CosmoDB, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus

1. Introduction An event-driven architecture using Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus is the enterprise standard for designing hi…

Prisma Broke at 570 Models. I Rebuilt Its Generator in 500ms.

Prisma didn't slow down. It didn't degrade. It just… stopped working. RangeError: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters That's not …

Self-hosted blockchain node: DIY vs Chainstack Self-Hosted

Getting a blockchain node running isn't the hard part. The hard part is everything that comes after — keeping it synchronized, updated, monitored, and…

Cloudflare R2 vs S3: Storage Costs for VPS Hosting

If you’re running a VPS and your object storage bill is starting to feel like a second server, cloudflare r2 vs s3 is the comparison that matters—beca…

Bugs Rust won't catch

How I Built Expiring Links With Zero Backend (React + TypeScript Only)

Most "expiring link" tools work the same way: generate a link, store the destination and expiry in a database, check the database on every click, redi…

Maximizing Efficiency with Texas Instruments TPS63030: A Deep Dive into Power Management ICs

Maximizing Efficiency with Texas Instruments TPS63030: A Deep Dive into Power Management ICs Power supply engineering: field lessons from motor drives…

Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part III

Friday's launch felt good. We posted on LinkedIn, Reddit, the GitHub community threads. The repo was already appearing in Google's AI Overview — organ…

Claude Code keeps forgetting your project context? Here are 3 fixes that actually work

Every developer using Claude Code hits the same wall: you spend 30 minutes building context, explaining your project structure, walking through the co…

Indie Dev ASO Complete Guide — Climbing App Store Rankings with Optimization

Indie Dev ASO Complete Guide — Climbing App Store Rankings with Optimization Building a great app is only half the battle — users need to find it. App…

Build Your First MCP Server in Python in 10 Minutes

MCP (Model Context Protocol) crossed 97 million monthly installs in March 2026 — faster adoption than React hit in its first three years. Chrome just …