Blog / Category
7 articles
Web Development/4 min read
How this blog runs on a self-hosted Next.js frontend and Strapi CMS on Dokploy, and what I learned rebuilding it: persistent volumes, build-time vs runtime environment variables, and keeping API tokens on the server.
Web Development/4 min read
How I built CourseCraft, a local-only Node.js app with no npm dependencies that turns downloaded video courses into an organised course site with progress, notes and subtitles.
Web Development/4 min read
How I built the Go and PostgreSQL backend for JamSesh, a platform where musicians find each other and record duets, with WebSocket chat and a scoped-down MVP.
Web Development/4 min read
How I built a real-time multiplayer number game in Next.js and Socket.io, inspired by the Balance Scale game from Alice in Borderland, with rooms, eliminations, spectators and a Dokploy deployment.
Web Development/3 min read
How I built the YallaHustle checklist API in Node.js and Express, which asks Google's Gemini for a structured JSON checklist per task, with per-user daily limits and defensive parsing of the model's output.
Web Development/3 min read
How I built Trendzy, a React Native and Expo app for sharing short videos, with file-based routing, an Appwrite backend, NativeWind styling and a separate admin area.
Web Development/3 min read
How I built Silicon for KEI Creations, a podcast studio CMS with a teleprompter that several devices control in real time over WebSockets, plus an Electron app for timed questions.