Tested guides for people who ship and operate software
Practical guides for AI-assisted development, Cloudflare, VPS infrastructure, automation, deployment and modern software engineering.
Add Claude Code to a TypeScript repo you already have: a CLAUDE.md that matches your real build, permission rules that block dangerous commands, and a typecheck loop the agent runs itself.
SSH hardening, a default-deny firewall, and the fix for the problem that catches almost everyone — Docker publishing container ports straight past UFW into the public internet.
A production n8n install on Ubuntu 24.04 using Docker Compose, PostgreSQL and Caddy for automatic TLS — with the encryption key, webhook URL and backup steps most quickstarts leave out.
Turn a diamond-ring request into a delivery-aware buying experience built on real catalogue, inventory, price and delivery data — and see where UCP fits.
A six-category framework for pricing self-hosted ecommerce ownership costs: licence, hosting, extensions, maintenance, security and staffing.
Saleor and Vendure both use GraphQL, but Channel currency limits, extension models, licences and B2B pricing set them apart.
Sharetribe's subscription SaaS backend versus CS-Cart Multi-Vendor's owned PHP source, compared on launch speed, transaction limits, ownership and operations.
Platform upgrades break checkout, admin panels or search not from the core version bump itself but from plugin, schema and search-index contracts moving on separate timelines.
Does EverShop's single-language stack offset its small ecosystem? Verified pricing, architecture trade-offs, scoring and a five-question PoC checklist.
Using AI models and AI-assisted tooling inside real codebases: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, prompt engineering and Model Context Protocol.
More in AI DevWorkers, Pages, R2, DNS, tunnels, caching and edge security on the Cloudflare platform.
Self-hosting n8n and building dependable automation workflows that integrate real business systems.
More in n8nOrdered sequences that take a subject from first setup to running it in production.
Take a blank Ubuntu VPS to a server that runs containerised applications safely: firewalls that cover Docker, a real deployment, restorable backups, and a pipeline that ships changes.
8 lessons
The parts of Cloudflare you use when you run your own infrastructure — DNS and proxy status, deploying to Workers, and replacing inbound firewall rules with a tunnel.
3 lessons
Put a coding agent to work on a codebase you already have, and keep the output reviewable — project setup, permission boundaries, task scoping and the review discipline that makes it safe to merge.
2 lessons
Run self-hosted n8n as infrastructure rather than a hobby project — Postgres storage, TLS, encryption key handling, host hardening and backups that include the things a database dump misses.
3 lessons