A common problem with a familiar shape: a process can dial outbound to the internet, but nothing on the internet can dial it back. Your dev server on a laptop. A service in a private VPC. A homelab app behind your router. A container in a pod with no ingress. Same shape every time — outbound works, inbound doesn't. rift is a small Go binary I built to solve that. Run it as a server on a VPS you ow
Introduction I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to be. This is not a "Claude Code is bad, everyone should switch" article. I still use Claude Code at work, and if cost were less of a factor in my personal setup, I would probably be using both more actively. If you're already comfort
Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduc
Posted by the RagLeap team — building RagLeap, a private-server AI business platform When we started building RagLeap, the easiest path was obvious: spin up an API, connect to OpenAI, store everything in a managed cloud database, and ship fast. The Problem Nobody Talks About You upload your documents, customer data, order history It works. But ask yourself: where is your data right now? What Our U
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it