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.
Keep the listener off the public internet, get pg_hba.conf right, require TLS for remote connections, and give the application a role that cannot drop your tables — on PostgreSQL 17 and Ubuntu 24.04.
Test, build a container image, push it to GHCR and deploy it to a VPS over SSH — with the concurrency guard, environment approval and token scoping that keep the pipeline from becoming the weak point.
A Meilisearch deployment that survives a real workload — master key handling, scoped API keys, the index settings you must set before loading data, snapshots, and what its memory usage actually means.
A working loop for running a coding agent on a real codebase — task scoping, branch isolation, tests as the contract, and the review discipline that stops unreviewed code reaching main.
Expose Docker services through Cloudflare with no inbound ports open — cloudflared plus Traefik, the forwarded-header setting that trips people up, and how to verify the firewall is closed.
Dokploy runs apps as Docker Swarm services, so rolling updates are already there — they just need a real health check and an update policy. Plus how to prove no request was dropped.
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