I wanted to add live chat to my WordPress sites without loading a 500KB third-party script. So I built my own. GhostChat is an open source embeddable Widget: Vanilla JS, no framework, ~10KB Backend: Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for persistent WebSocket connections Payments: Stripe for the hosted tier Self-hostable: Bring your own Cloudflare account Durable Objects give you stateful serve
The more I use AI, the more convincing it feels. Clear answers. Whether it’s: strategy code writing decision support AI rarely hesitates. And over time, I noticed something subtle. I stopped questioning it as much. Breaking the Expectation We assume better tools reduce errors. Smarter systems. And in many cases, that’s true. But there’s a hidden shift happening: As AI improves, our skepticism decr
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Blueprint Felonies Software isn't a puzzle to solve; it is a liability to be managed. In high-stakes, cloud-native environments, the line between "sophisticated" and "unstable" is razor-thin. With over 17 years in the software trenches, I’ve seen architectural "thinking mistakes" destroy more careers than bad syntax ever could. We often build massive, intricate systems when a simple, focused sol
Find a beginner-friendly issue. Fork the repo. Set up the dev environment. Read through the codebase. Start working. Then check the issue again and see a comment from 2 days ago: "Hey I'm working on this, should have a PR up soon." Two hours wasted. Every single time. The weird part? Almost every existing tool for finding open source issues - goodfirstissue.dev, up-for-grabs.net, codetriage - rely
Discord rewrote their stack multiple times. Elixir for real-time messaging. Python for APIs. Go for microservices. MongoDB for storage. Electron for desktop. Standard startup choices. Ship fast, figure out the rest later. 5 million users. MongoDB couldn't keep up. Switched to Cassandra. 12 nodes. Worked fine. Until 2022, when those 12 nodes became 177. Maintenance got painful. Costs climbed. They
Reading Ruler is now officially live on the Chrome Web Store. If you’ve been following the project or using the local version, you can now install it with one click. I’m looking for real feedback from actual users — what works, what’s confusing, what should be improved next. Your comments, bug reports, and suggestions will directly shape the next update. Thanks to everyone who supported the projec
Updated May 2026: Now covers virtual desktop (Spaces) restoration and iCloud sync across multiple Macs, both shipped in ShiftPlus 1.3. TL;DR A complete macOS workspace includes apps, window layouts, browser profiles, virtual desktops, and terminal state. Native macOS saves almost none of it. Most third-party tools cover one slice: Stay and Spencer handle window layouts, Shift handles browser profi