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Infrastructure

Hosting, edge compute, databases, and the pipes that hold modern apps together.

Paperless-ngx: Self-Hosted Document Management for Developers Who Want the API

A hands-on review of paperless-ngx, the open-source self-hosted DMS. We cover the Docker stack, OCR pipeline, REST API, AI workflow integration, and where Whoosh search hits its limits.

2026-05-12
Gitleaks: Open-Source Secret Scanning for Git Repos in 2026

A hands-on review of Gitleaks for catching hardcoded secrets in Git history. Covers the CLI, pre-commit hooks, CI integration, and how it stacks up against GitGuardian for teams that don't want to pay per developer.

2026-05-12
Eleven Browser Games in a Week — What a Design System Buys You

play.pickuma.com now has eleven games. After the first two, the bottleneck was no longer game logic — it was the chrome around each game. Here's the design system that made the next nine fast.

2026-05-12
I Shipped Two Web Games This Weekend — Here's the Stack

Stop at 7.77 and Eagle Run are live at play.pickuma.com. A 250-line vanilla canvas game and a one-button time-sense test, both shipped in a day. The stack, the tradeoffs, the things that worked.

2026-05-12
Phantom Pulse RAT Hits Obsidian Plugins: How to Audit Dev Tool Supply Chains

A malicious Obsidian community plugin delivered the Phantom Pulse RAT to developer vaults. Here is the attack chain and how to audit plugins in Obsidian, VS Code, and Cursor.

2026-05-12
Best Free Tiers for Developers in 2026: SaaS, PaaS & IaaS Tools

A 2026 audit of free-tier developer services: which hosting, database, CI/CD, and observability platforms still let you ship a side project for $0, where the hidden cliffs are, and when paying actually costs less than working around limits.

2026-05-11

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