Every client project I take on at Warung Digital Teknologi starts the same way: a folder of API endpoints I need to poke at before a single line of integration ...
Picking a customer support platform used to be a checkbox exercise: install a chat widget, point it at a shared inbox, done. That stopped being true around 2024...
Password management stopped being a personal-productivity question years ago. The moment you run a team — or in my case, a small agency juggling credentials f...
Two of the on-call tools engineering teams relied on for years are now on a countdown clock. Opsgenie stopped selling to new customers on June 4, 2025 and reach...
If your SaaS goes down at 03:00 and your customers find out from a 502 page instead of a status page, you lose trust faster than you lose uptime. I learned this...
I've been hosting production workloads on shared Hostinger for our seven aggregator blogs, but every Node and Python side project that touches background worker...
For two years I assumed my cron jobs were fine because the websites looked fine. They were not fine. One Sunday in March I noticed CloudHostReview was three day...
The first time I realized I needed real LLM observability was the morning I opened the OpenAI billing dashboard and saw a $312 spike from a single weekend. Cont...
Picking a search engine for a SaaS product feels deceptively simple until you sit down to wire one in. The four serious contenders in 2026 — Meilisearch, Type...
I've been running Warung Digital Teknologi for 11+ years, and across the 50+ client projects we've shipped, the issue tracker has changed roughly every 18 month...
Last month one of our SaaS clients pinged me at 11pm because their order confirmation emails were taking 4-6 minutes to arrive. They were on a free tier of one ...
When you're shipping production software for paying clients, errors that go undetected aren't just embarrassing — they're expensive. After running into this p...
Running a software development agency means juggling multiple client projects simultaneously — and billing correctly is as important as shipping quality code...
I was standing on the Yamanote Line in a crowded train car last Thursday, 7:43 PM, when my friend Marco sent me a GitHub link with zero context. Just the URL. N...
My buddy Tariq — who runs a twelve-person recruiting startup in Austin — pinged me at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. Not a normal occurrence. "Did you see the Brow...
I Installed Wine 11 on Three Different Linux Boxes Last Weekend — And NTSYNC Made One of Them Feel Like a Completely Different Machine Look, I've been runnin...
I spent three weeks using Claude Code before I realized I'd been doing almost everything wrong. Not wrong as in broken — wrong as in "driving a Ferrari in fir...
I have a confession that will probably get my developer card revoked: I have never been good at designing terminal user interfaces. I can write a backend that p...
Last Thursday, I opened my browser and noticed something odd. A Chrome extension I had been using for two years — a simple tab manager that I genuinely liked ...
It started, as most bad ideas do, at 2 AM on a Wednesday. I was lying in bed, unable to sleep, scrolling through a Hacker News thread about a guy who had been t...
Look, I'll be honest with you — I never thought I'd become the kind of person who obsesses over time tracking. Back in 2023, I was running a small dev agency ...