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In this post, I want to talk about how I think about designing software systems, starting from the first and most important principle. This is inspired by my experience conducting interviews at Redox, mentoring engineers over the years, as well as designing complex systems myself.

Introducing a simple, open-source Webhook Testing Tool that you can easily host on Fly.

A quick tutorial for enabling the pgvector extension on your Fly Postgres instance.

A quick tutorial for deploying a private “LLM model as a service” to Fly using a single-file executable Llamafile.

Explaining a pattern I’m using for client/server state management in dust.

I recently deployed another one of my little apps, written with Next.js. In this post, I discuss why my app is deployed on Fly instead of Vercel, even though Vercel is ”the native Next.js platform“.

I’m working on a habit/task tracking app called Habitsheets. As I’ve worked on it, thinking about “features I’d like in my ideal habit/task tracking app,” some ideas occurred to me that don’t seem common in other apps. This post is highlighting those features I wouldn’t mind seeing in other habit and/or task management tools.

I’ve been wanting an “SSO lab” for experimenting with Single Sign-On (SAML and OIDC) setups. My solution is a Keycloak instance running on Fly.io. This post is a brief tutorial for self-hosting your own Keycloak instance.

A script to scaffold new posts for my Astro blog.

Use D2 markup to author diagrams in your Astro MDX content.