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  1. 1What Changes When a Personal Site Moves to a €4 Hetzner Box
  2. 2An RSS Feed in the Next.js App Router, in About Twenty Lines
  3. 3Auto-Merge on Green CI: How Much Do You Trust Your Own Pipeline?
  4. 4One Postgres, Two Lives: Neon in Production, Docker in Local Dev
  5. 5The Dollar Sign That Broke My Bcrypt Hash
Binding a Port to Loopback Instead of Writing a Firewall Rule

2 October 2026

Binding a Port to Loopback Instead of Writing a Firewall Rule

A monitoring dashboard needed to be reachable for a one-time setup and invisible afterward. The fix was one word in a docker-compose file, not a firewall rule to remember to keep in sync.

infrastructuresecurity
What Changes When a Personal Site Moves to a €4 Hetzner Box

7 August 2026

What Changes When a Personal Site Moves to a €4 Hetzner Box

A CX23 in Helsinki instead of a managed platform. More control, more responsibility, and a monthly bill that stops scaling with traffic.

infrastructure
One Postgres, Two Lives: Neon in Production, Docker in Local Dev

4 August 2026

One Postgres, Two Lives: Neon in Production, Docker in Local Dev

Neon's serverless Postgres backs the live site; Docker Compose backs local iteration. What that split buys, and where dev-hub actually deviates from it.

databasesinfrastructure
DNS-Only vs. Proxied on Cloudflare: Why the Orange Cloud Is Still Off

31 July 2026

DNS-Only vs. Proxied on Cloudflare: Why the Orange Cloud Is Still Off

The proxy toggle looks like a free upgrade — CDN, DDoS protection, hidden origin IP. Turning it on for a single-server personal site is not free.

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