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Relay: file delivery with a dashboard
Every product we ship needs somewhere to put its releases: installers, APKs, game builds. Relay is that place — a file delivery service with real URLs...
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Introducing Ark: every stack, one click
We are building a local development environment we have wanted for years: install one app, park a folder, and every project inside it is instantly rea...
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Loom: the headless CMS behind this website
Every page you read on this site — including this post — is served from Loom, our headless content platform. Here is what it is, and why we built it i...
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Odyssey devlog #1: a world you can log into
Odyssey is our multiplayer online RPG — and this is the first devlog in a series we will keep writing as the world grows. The short version: it is rea...
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Hive: AI sessions against your GitLab backlog
AI coding assistants are transformative in an editor — but a backlog is not an editor. Hive is our orchestrator for running AI coding sessions against...
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Crownspire: building a kingdom that plays itself (a little)
Crownspire started with a simple picture: an idle game where progress is not a bigger number but a visibly growing world — a 3D diorama kingdom that f...
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Retina: vision models without the MLOps yak-shave
Most computer-vision projects die in the plumbing: object storage, training infrastructure, experiment tracking, serving. Retina packages that plumbin...
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Little Snuggle: a calmer baby tracker
Baby tracking apps are used by people at their most exhausted, at 3am, one-handed. That constraint shaped every screen of Little Snuggle: logging a fe...
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Sentinel: the cluster monitor that files tickets
Metrics dashboards answer "what is happening?". The question that actually costs you weekends is "what should I do about it?". Sentinel is our in-clus...
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Cadence: an auto clicker with craftsmanship
Auto clickers are one of those utility categories where most options are either ancient, ad-riddled, or suspicious downloads. Cadence is our take: a s...
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Configurator: mobile release logistics, solved once
Shipping one mobile app teaches you Fastlane. Shipping several teaches you that the real problem is logistics: which keystore signs what, which Fireba...
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Picking Between RDS, Aurora and DynamoDB: A Non-Religious Guide
Picking Between RDS, Aurora and DynamoDB: A Non-Religious GuideChoosing the right database for your application can feel like a doctrinal decision, wi...
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VPC Endpoints vs NAT Gateways: Stop Paying for Traffic That Never Leaves AWS
If you're paying NAT gateway charges to fetch from S3, DynamoDB, or Secrets Manager — and a lot of teams are — this post is for you. The bill nobody q...
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S3 Cost Traps We Keep Falling Into (And How to Spot Them)
S3 is incredibly cheap. Until it isn't. Here are the cost traps we keep seeing in real production accounts. Why S3 bills sneak up on you S3 storage at...
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Building Little Snuggle: How We Keep Baby-Sleep Timers Accurate With a Foreground Service
Sleep tracking sounds simple — start a timer, stop a timer, store the duration. Anyone who's actually built it on Android in 2026 knows the simple ver...
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AWS Lambda Cold Starts: What Actually Causes Them, and What You Can Do
Cold starts. The two-word ghost story we tell each other at AWS meetups. Let's actually look inside the box.What "cold start" actually meansWhen your...
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ECS vs EKS: Choosing the Right Container Orchestrator on AWS
ECS vs EKS: Choosing the Right Container Orchestrator on AWS When running containerised workloads on AWS, the two main options are Amazon ECS (Elastic...
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Why Terraform is the Standard for Infrastructure as Code
Why Terraform is the Standard for Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become a non-negotiable practice for any engineering team ma...
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Designing a Multi-Account AWS Strategy
Designing a Multi-Account AWS Strategy As organizations grow their AWS footprint, starting with a single account is natural, but it quickly becomes un...
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