Articles
Long-form essays on self-hosting, open source evaluation, and SaaS migration. Written without hype.
When self-hosting goes wrong: seven failure modes and how to avoid them
An honest retrospective on the ways self-hosted setups break — not in theory, but in practice — and the small habits that prevent most of them.
Will the open source project you depend on still exist in three years?
Bus factor, maintainer burnout, funding models, and the signals that separate OSS projects that survive from those that quietly decay.
From SaaS to self-hosted: a 30-day migration playbook
A week-by-week plan to move one service off SaaS and onto your own server without breaking your team's workflow.
Why the best open source alternative is sometimes a smaller one
The most-starred project isn't always the right one. A guide to when a smaller, leaner open source tool beats the popular choice.
Open source alternatives: the comparison criteria that actually matter
GitHub stars lie. Forks can mislead. Here's a framework for evaluating open source projects that goes beyond the vanity metrics.
The real monthly cost of a Notion workspace at scale
Add-ons, seats, AI credits, storage. What a mid-sized team actually pays for Notion once you count everything — and what switching saves.
Self-hosting in 2026: the honest survey
An honest look at what self-hosting actually costs in 2026 — time, money, attention — and who should and shouldn't do it.
Why your team probably can't ditch Slack yet (and what needs to change)
Mattermost and Rocket.Chat are excellent. So why do most teams who try to migrate away from Slack end up back on Slack? An honest look at the real blockers.