Ever since I rewrote an app built with Django + Nuxt as a single SvelteKit app, everything I build on my own uses the same stack. Drawing on the actual repositories, I go over why I stopped splitting out the backend, why I picked Svelte over React, why I decided SQLite was enough, and the pitfalls I hit with Bun.

I tried to ship an app that uses search.messages to other people's workspaces, only to find search:read named outright as a rejected scope in the Slack Marketplace guidelines. These are my notes on what I found, alternative routes included, and the shape I ended up going with.

I fully migrated this blog from Next.js to Fuwari, an Astro-based theme. Here's a full rundown of the current setup, from build and delivery to comments and subscriptions. For comments, I went through giscus, remark42, and Artalk, and in the end wrote my own.

Personal notes on swapping an SSD into a Mercedes NTG head unit

I did a vehicle ownership transfer registration through OSS, so here's a walkthrough of how it works.

I used VCDS to customize how the electrical systems on my Audi behave (apparently this is commonly called "coding"), so here are the steps and the things you can customize.

Saving periodic RDS dumps to S3 with ECS