Why Your Hosting Bill Keeps Growing (And What to Do About It)
Is your hosting bill growing every month with no explanation? I audit hosting costs for UK businesses and 9 out of 10 are overpaying…
Field notes
What I’m learning while building AI products.
Practical notes on AI products, CTO decisions, and the platforms that keep them reliable.
The Complete Guide to Transactional Email Troubleshooting: A DevOps Engineer’s Handbook
Introduction Transactional emails are the backbone of modern application communication. Whether it’s password resets, order confirmations, or critical system alerts, these messages must reach…
Scaling from MVP in Lovable: The WordPress Lesson for Modern Startups
Lovable (formerly GPT Engineer) is brilliant for getting your startup from idea to MVP at lightning speed. You can ship a working product in…
Terraform Helm Provider Configuration Troubleshooting Guide
When deploying Kubernetes applications using Terraform’s Helm provider, configuration errors can cascade into multiple issues. This comprehensive guide covers systematic troubleshooting for the most…
🎣 I’m Hooked on Claude Code Hooks: Why This Changes Agentic Coding Forever
🧠 Watch the original video by IndyDevDan Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting heavily with agentic coding — building systems where AI…
How AlanOps.com Became a DevOps Playground: My Journey to Frictionless Blogging
A behind-the-scenes look at how I transformed my WordPress blog into a fully automated, DevOps-powered publishing platform that lets me blog directly from the…
The Ultimate Claude Code Playbook
A comprehensive guide to maximizing productivity with Claude Code based on proven community strategies and best practices. Table of Contents Foundation: The CLAUDE.md System…
Secrets Management in the LLM Era: What Changes?
You may be wondering if anything changes with secrets management now that we’re all copy-pasting code into ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs daily. The…
GraphQL: A Complete Guide for Modern API Development
What is GraphQL and Why Should You Care? GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs that fundamentally changes how clients request and…
Pipeline Error Handling: Understanding `tee` and `set -o pipefail` in CI/CD
In the world of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, understanding how Unix commands behave in pipelines is crucial for building robust automation. Today, I want…
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