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A personal reflection on why I built ChooseFIRE, and how a simple calculator can make income, spending, savings rate, returns, and personal freedom easier to reason about.
How to connect SillyTavern to DeepSeek through the official API or an OpenAI-compatible configuration, without a local GPU or large model downloads.
A reflection on why AI changes the cost-benefit balance of frontend-backend separation, and why product-layer full stack should become the default for many projects.
A practical reassessment of Docker across local development, Docker Desktop overhead, Linux server performance, and a small Redis deployment with Compose.
A practical server-side GitHub OAuth login flow using state validation, authorization code exchange, GitHub user lookup, and a local session.
A practical Windows setup for running DeepSeek R1 with Ollama and connecting SillyTavern to the local model service, covering model size, GPU requirements, API settings, and common problems.
A reflection on platform power, algorithmic distribution, creator assets, and why independent blogs still matter when most attention comes from social platforms.
A practical setup for turning Cloudflare R2, Workers, D1, Pages, and TinyPNG into a personal image hosting workflow for a static blog.
How to use a global NestJS interceptor to wrap successful API responses, and how to skip wrapping for webhooks, file downloads, and protocol-specific endpoints.
A practical explanation of how React key participates in component identity, why changing it resets state, and when that is the right tool.