// notes
Field notes.
A running archive of things I've built, broken, fixed, or learned along the way. Short reads, lessons, experiments, tools — all the work that doesn't fit on a portfolio page.
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Tauri shipped me a 13MB terminal. Electron shipped me 150MB.
A short note on the bundle-size diff after rewriting SENU from Electron+React to Tauri 2 + Rust. The number matters more than I thought.
#tauri #electron #rust #senu #desktop #frontend22 Dec 2025 -
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Self-hosting on a $5 VPS, one year in
One Contabo VPS, a handful of projects, nginx + PHP 8.3 + Certbot. The real lesson: 90% of the work is the boring 10%.
#vps #nginx #infrastructure #self-hosting30 Jun 2025 -
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On choosing Laravel + Filament for boring backends
My default stack for 90% of backends. Not because it is the best. Because boring is reliable, and an admin in an hour beats an admin in a week.
#laravel #filament #php #architecture #backend08 Jan 2025