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Make Your AI Sessions More Efficient with Skills
Raw AI prompting gets you generic output. Skills change the equation. Here's what they are, which ones are worth using, and how to know when to reach for one.
Vercel Is Great Until You See the Bill
Vercel makes deployment genuinely painless. But between per-seat pricing, usage billing, and function timeouts, the costs stack up fast. Here's how to get the same git-push workflow on a VPS you own for a fraction of the price.
Self-Hosting Umami Analytics: Adding Privacy-First Tracking to Every Property, Including phpBB
We self-hosted Umami on Hetzner + Coolify and got it running across all our properties, including a phpBB forum where the normal script tag silently does nothing.
How We Moved to Next.js and Cloudflare Workers
We moved our website from a hand-coded static HTML/CSS site to a full Next.js application deployed on Cloudflare Workers. Here's why, and what we learned.
Why AI Is a Game-Changer for Small Businesses
AI is no longer just for big tech. Here's how small businesses can use it today to save time, cut costs, and compete without a dedicated IT team.