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
Why this list is different The "best" email API depends entirely on what you're building. A side project optimizing for the free tier needs different things than a Series B SaaS sending two million transactional emails a month. This post grades eight providers against the criteria that actually move the needle in production, and tells you which one to pick for which use case. Most roundups in th
If you want to Automate GitHub PRs, the real goal is not just adding another bot comment to a pull request. The goal is to give reviewers the context they usually have to gather manually: who owns the service, whether it is deployed, whether basic repository standards are in place, and whether the change looks safe to merge. A useful AI pull request workflow can do exactly that. When a PR opens, i
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
Well, I have been on GitHub since 2019, even before the lockdown. Back then, I did not properly use GitHub. I used to just make projects, upload the code, and share it with friends. But I never really understood the point of GitHub. I think I missed my tutorials on GitHub. But now, I’ll share some key ways to actually make the best out of it. Your GitHub profile is not just a bio page. It is your
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