Sharing a preview of a web app in a dev container with a friend over the internet through NetBird's reverse proxy, with a Windows port proxy, a firewall rule and Vite allowing the proxy's hostname.
The gotchas of running Dev Containers on Windows, from flaky file watching to everything being executable, why moving into WSL fixed it, and Claude everywhere.
Why I keep reaching for static sites and Hugo when building websites, where they get awkward for non-blog sites, and the tools I should try instead.
I built SnapJoust to run photo competitions decided by head to head voting, and the AWS tricks for waking a sleeping database without a load balancer.
Replacing my Halloween map for Ashford with BooMap, where people can add their own decorated houses and events. Built with SvelteKit and MapLibre.
Swapping the hello-friend-ng theme for one of my own: tie-dye colours, a retro look, year tabs and search, sidenotes, a photo gallery and new pages.
My first go at Advent of Code in something other than Python. 29 stars in Rust, a handy PEG parser, and a lot of fighting with Rc and RefCell.
