If you run Netdata on one to three machines at home, the local agent dashboard on port 19999 plus the free Netdata Cloud tier covers almost everything you need, and a paid plan rarely earns its keep across three years. Pay only when you need durable multi node views, alert routing that reaches other people, and role based access you can revoke. Self hosting a Netdata parent node is the cheapest...
Writing SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries is not the difficult part of a CRUD API. The difficulty begins when every route starts handling SQL, input validation, HTTP status codes, and error formatting at the same time.
That version may work for five endpoints. It becomes unpleasant when you add authentication, pagination, rela...
Two days ago I changed the tags on three of my own posts, added cover images, and watched reads go from 2 to 45. That is an anecdote with n=3 and a proud author attached to it, which is worth roughly nothing.
So I collected 16,599 articles from the public API across 20 tags, kept the 11,450 that had been up for at least 72 hours, and looked at what actually separates the ones that land ...
The worst bug I've seen in a test suite wasn't a failure. It was a pass.
A login test tapped a button labeled "Continue". The app then shipped a second "Continue" inside a consent sheet, and the recorded test — which resolved its selector by taking the first match — started tapping the wrong one. It stayed green for two weeks, because the flow still ended up somewhere plausible, and a p...
Most "how we built it" write ups start with the tech stack. This one starts earlier: with 300 conversations a founder had with procurement leaders before deciding what to build at all.
Omnea's founder, Ben Freeman, spent that discovery phase hearing some version of the same complaint repeatedly, that procurement processes were widely disliked and the tools available were clunky, but nobody...
Random generators look simple from the outside. Press a button, get a result, repeat.
But a good Random Pokémon Generator is not really about randomness alone. The useful part is giving players enough control to make each result interesting without turning the tool into another complicated Pokédex interface.
Poké...