Building a Multi-Tenant CMS with Next.js and Hasura
How I built Unity Sites, a platform where one Next.js app serves hundreds of different portfolio sites, each with its own content and theme.
Blog
Writing on software, open source, and technical deep-dives.
PostgreSQL Is Enough
You probably do not need Redis, Elasticsearch, or a separate analytics database. PostgreSQL handles all of it, and it has for years.
Hasura: Getting a Full GraphQL API Without Writing Resolvers
After years of writing REST endpoints and GraphQL resolvers by hand, Hasura gives me the whole API from a Postgres schema. Here is why I made the switch.
Building nSelf: From One Shell Script to an Open-Source CLI
nSelf started as a 200-line bash script that stood up Docker containers. Now it is a proper CLI with 30+ commands. Here is how it grew.
Why I Self-Host My Entire Backend on a $4 Server
Managed databases cost $20-100/month for what is essentially a $4 VPS with a nice UI. I got tired of this and built nSelf to make self-hosting as easy as one command.
Porting NREL's Solar Position Algorithm from C to TypeScript
The NREL SPA is a 4,000-line C program that calculates solar position to 0.0003 degree accuracy. I ported it to TypeScript and kept the precision.