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Reviewing some of my earliest web projects: they have a mix of Postgres, MySQL and Mongo. These days I just use sqlite for all my personal projects. It's really good at my scale and makes deploying very easier.

Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs. I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!

Caddy is really growing on me. It's nice having a web proxy that includes letsencrypt functionality without any additional configuration. I've tended to use nginx with a separate letsencrypt setup for projects before, and it's much more awkward.