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Technical debt from vibe coding accumulating
AI8 min read

The Real Cost of Vibe Coding: Technical Debt Nobody Warns You About

"Two engineers can now create the tech debt of fifty." Here's what that actually means for your AI-built projects—and how to manage it.

January 12, 2026
Bolt.new app going to production
Dev7 min read

Bolt.new to Production: The Complete Deploy Checklist

Bolt gets you 70% of the way to a working app. Here's how to handle the other 30% before you go live.

January 11, 2026
Managing multiple AI-built applications
Startup6 min read

Running 5 Vibe-Coded Apps? Here's How to Keep Them All Healthy

You built one app with AI. Then another. Now you have five. Each has its own Supabase, Vercel, domain... and you're drowning in dashboards.

January 10, 2026
Lovable security vulnerability analysis
AI7 min read

Is Lovable Secure? What CVE-2025-48757 Means for Your App

In May 2025, a vulnerability exposed 170+ Lovable-built apps. Here's what happened, whether it affects you, and what to do about it.

January 9, 2026
Supabase database paused due to inactivity
Dev6 min read

Supabase Project Paused? How to Prevent It (2026 Guide)

Your Supabase project went inactive and now it's paused. Your users are getting errors. Here's how to fix it, prevent it, and decide if it's time to upgrade.

January 7, 2026
Multiple dashboard windows consolidated into one
Product5 min read

Stop Checking 5 Dashboards Every Morning

You wake up, grab coffee, and start the ritual: Vercel, then UptimeRobot, then GitHub, then PageSpeed, then... There's a better way.

January 4, 2026
Army of robot crawlers approaching a website
AI8 min read

The AI Crawler Wars: Is Your Site Feeding the Models or Getting Blocked?

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot — they're all crawling your site right now. Some you want. Some you don't. Here's how to take control of your AI visibility.

January 3, 2026
Solo developer as a one-person DevOps team
Startup6 min read

Ship Fast, Monitor Faster: DevOps for the Solo Builder

You don't have an ops team. You don't have on-call rotations. But you do have users who expect your app to work. Here's your survival guide.

January 2, 2026
Client receiving health report before problems occur
Product6 min read

Your Clients Don't Care About Uptime (Until It's Down)

For freelancers and agencies: how to proactively report project health to clients before they notice problems. Turn monitoring into a selling point.

January 2, 2026
Hidden costs of free hosting
Startup5 min read

The Hidden Cost of Free Hosting: What Vercel and Netlify Don't Tell You

Free tiers are amazing for getting started. But as your traffic grows, the hidden costs add up fast. Here's what you need to know before that first bill surprises you.

January 1, 2026
SSL certificate expiring
Dev4 min read

Your SSL Certificate Will Expire and You Will Forget

Auto-renewal is supposed to handle this. But auto-renewal fails more often than you think. Here's why SSL expiry is still a problem in 2026.

December 31, 2025
Core Web Vitals dashboard
Dev6 min read

Core Web Vitals in 2026: What Actually Matters Now

Google keeps updating what matters for performance. Here's the current state of Core Web Vitals and where to focus your optimization efforts.

December 30, 2025
Health score being calculated from components
Product5 min read

What's Actually in a Project Health Score?

SlyDuck gives your project a health score. But what goes into that number? Here's the full breakdown of how we calculate it—no black boxes.

December 30, 2025
Running multiple projects on minimal budget
Startup5 min read

The $5/Month Stack: Running Multiple SaaS Projects Solo

Running three side projects doesn't have to mean three hosting bills. Here's how to keep your infrastructure costs minimal while still building real products.

December 29, 2025
GitHub outage causing panic
Dev5 min read

Backups Are Boring Until GitHub Goes Down

Git is not a backup strategy. GitHub is not invincible. Here's why you need actual backups.

December 28, 2025
Developer realizing SSL expired
Product5 min read

I Built a SaaS and Forgot About SSL Expiry

A true story about launching a product, getting customers, and then watching Chrome show them a scary security warning. Learn from my mistake.

December 28, 2025
SEO audit revealing hidden problems
Dev5 min read

Why Your SEO Audit Tool Is Lying to You

That 98/100 SEO score looks great. But it might be hiding real problems that affect your actual rankings.

December 27, 2025
Deploy breaking while developer sleeps
Dev4 min read

The Overnight Deploy That Broke Everything (And How to Catch It)

You shipped a bug at 11 PM. Your site broke at 2 AM. You found out at 8 AM from angry users. Here's how to never have that morning again.

December 26, 2025
AI building unstable code structure
AI6 min read

Technical Debt from AI-Generated Code: The 2026 Reality

Cursor and Copilot write great code fast. But six months later, you're maintaining a codebase you don't fully understand.

December 25, 2025
Side project growing into a business
Startup5 min read

From Side Project to Real Business: When Monitoring Becomes Mandatory

Your side project got its first paying customer. Now uptime actually matters. Here's how to professionalize without enterprise pricing.

December 24, 2025

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