Self-Hosted vs SaaS: When It Actually Makes Sense to Run Your Own Infra
This blog leans heavily on self-hosting — tile servers, routing engines, reverse proxies, all run on a VPS you manage […]
Best AI Coding Tools in 2026 for Solo/Indie Developers
The honest starting point for this list: there’s no single “best” AI coding tool anymore. By mid-2026, the category has
Swap Space and OOM Kills: Surviving Heavy Processing on a Small VPS
This blog has referenced this fix three times already — in the MapLibre tile setup, the OSRM routing guide, and
Building a KYC/Liveness Detection Flow in Flutter Without Lock-in
If you followed the Flutter + Supabase auth flow from this blog, this is the natural next step for any
5 VPS Providers Compared for Indie Devs (Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Contabo)
If you’ve followed along with the self-hosted map tile and Docker + Nginx guides on this blog, you’ve probably wondered
Flutter + Supabase: A Production-Ready Auth Flow
Supabase has become one of the more popular backends for indie Flutter apps — Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime, without
Fixing Silent Glyph/Font Failures in MapLibre Styles (a debugging story)
Some bugs announce themselves with a stack trace. Others just quietly remove a feature and let you find out from
OSRM Routing Self-Hosted: Car and Truck Profiles on a Budget VPS
Once you’ve got self-hosted map tiles running, the next thing most location-based apps need is routing — turn-by-turn directions, ETAs,
Docker + Nginx Reverse Proxy: The Setup I Use for Every VPS Project
Every self-hosted project I run — whether it’s a map tile server, an API, or a small internal tool —
Self-Hosting Vector Map Tiles with MapLibre & Docker (Complete Guide)
If you’re building a location-based app — delivery, logistics, real estate, agriculture — at some point you’ll hit the wall