Insights on solo development, AI tools, and building digital products as an independent developer.
Comparing Better Auth and Lucia for solo developers. Batteries-included TypeScript auth versus a minimal session library. Which to pick in 2026 and why.
I wanted real footballer photos on the cards in my draft game, free-licensed only. The fetch was easy. Not shipping the philosopher Socrates instead of the footballer was the hard part. Here is the pipeline and the disambiguation fix.
How to orchestrate a large generation or audit job across parallel AI agents with adversarial verification and looping quality gates, instead of trusting one giant prompt.
Agentic AI coding gives real leverage only when you decompose work, isolate it, anchor it with durable context, and verify the output. Here is how I direct it.
Comparing Coolify and Dokploy for solo developers. Two self-hosted PaaS options that replace Vercel and Heroku. Features, polish, and which to install.
How I added paid checkout to a SvelteKit app using Whop's embedded iframe, and why a verified server webhook, not the browser callback, grants access.
Players draft the team but never play the match, so the simulation has to feel fair. Here is the possession-and-event model behind World 11, why it is deterministic from a single seed, and what that buys you for free.
How I scoped and shipped a searchable AI and SaaS tool directory solo. Search as the core UX, original long-form content as the moat.
Comparing TanStack Start and Next.js for solo developers. Type-safe routing, server functions, deployment story, and which framework wins for shipping fast.
How to decide between an off-the-shelf AI tool and a custom AI feature, weighing control, cost, differentiation, and data with a clear framework.
An honest breakdown of what it costs to build a useful AI agent for a business, the build cost versus the ongoing run cost, and what drives each number.
Comparing HTMX and Alpine.js for solo developers. Server-driven hypermedia versus tiny client-side reactivity. Features, tradeoffs, and which to pick.
An honest look at how long a SaaS MVP really takes, the realistic ranges, and the decisions that quietly make it faster or much slower.
How a non-technical founder vets an AI developer: how to tell shipped work from demos, the right questions to ask, and the red flags that signal trouble before you pay.
Comparing Bun and Deno for solo developers. Two new JavaScript runtimes with different philosophies. Performance, security, npm compatibility, and which one to pick.