Rails

Start simple. Then add complexity where it makes your life easier. I maintain this Hugo blog for general writing. But I also needed something different inside my Rails app at NoraFoundry.dev — a way to publish position papers, technical notes, and architecture essays directly in the application. Hugo’s great, but bolting a separate publishing stack alongside Rails for a handful of markdown documents felt like overkill. ...

Be adventurous and free - start hosting this stuff yourself with no barriers to your exploration! The $17/Month Death by a Thousand Cuts I love building side projects. I tend to use them to explore technologies in a fun way - Fantasy golf leagues, personal dashboards - the kind of apps that scratch a specific itch but don’t need to scale to millions of users. But every time I’d spin up a new Rails app, I’d hit the same wall: hosting costs that kill exploration. ...