This is a submission for the "Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend" ( https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-weekend-2026-10-01 ) What I Built I built AI Product Quality Inspector, a simple computer-vision application designed to help a friend who needs an easier way to check…
A small SaaS should choose a hosted metrics dashboard API by testing whether it can preserve four incident signals across a rollback: request outcomes, latency, queue age, and deployment identity. The cheapest-looking chart is irrelevant if a reverted release changes labels, duplicates counters, or…
The best small-SaaS observability stack is the smallest system that can distinguish customer-visible notification delivery failure from an unhealthy process, while retaining enough logs, metrics, and error detail to explain the difference across Europe and the US. TL;DR: probe the public path from…
This week, our Screen Queen Clare Rigden is marvelling at the final 7 Up film, checking out Small Prophets, getting freaked out by Carrie, peeping murderous gnomes, and hate-watching The Kardashians.
Short version for the impatient: if you run one to five small sites on a single VPS, use Caddy. If you already have nginx configs that work, or you need something Caddy makes awkward, stay on nginx and stop reading comparison posts at midnight. I'm saying this as someone who defaults to nginx out…
Data on the number of migrants arriving in the UK in small boats and those who were prevented by French authorities from crossing the English Channel.
