DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in Leeds. I build Azure infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, and shared platform systems for large-scale SaaS. I write about that here, along with personal computing, my ongoing Linux journey, and whatever else is on my mind.
The recurrence rules, rotation logic, and schedule math in bubbyway live in files that import nothing from Drizzle or SvelteKit, so vitest can exercise them in isolation. Here is what separating that logic out actually buys, what it costs in daily discipline, and where the seams have resisted being clean.
The bubbyway household app runs two Node processes side by side on a Pi behind a local Caddy, with atomic upstream swaps and additive-only SQLite migrations. Why an app two people use needs production-grade deploys, and what the constraints quietly taught me about migrations, caching, and the small operational kindnesses that decide whether software feels trustworthy in everyday use.
A small Flutter harness, eleven prompts, ten model families, and one question: which small LLM can estimate food macros on a Pixel 8 in under ten seconds? Here is what won on accuracy, what is still being measured for speed, and what the methodology taught me along the way.
A self-hosted SvelteKit app for one specific household. Chores and meds and shopping, yes, but also inside jokes and date nights and a wishlist that hides its own state from the person it belongs to. What I learnt building software for two named people rather than for an abstract user base.
A week ago I argued against bundling Open Food Facts. PR #371 ships an opt-in offline catalog. What changed, and what didn't, between the two decisions.
What I keep finding in the codebases I work on, and what changes when somebody who isn't the assumed default sits down to read the code carefully.
Coming into a stalled open source project means doing the unglamorous foundation work before the visible work makes sense. Texture from a week of getting flow back.
Flutter promises platform parity. The reality is iOS-only work Linux can't compile, let alone catch. Four PRs from a weekend of platform-specific yak-shaving.
OpenNutriTracker now has recipes. The interesting parts aren't in the demo: snapshot semantics on edit, multi-source routing on import, the recursion v1 dodged.
TDEE formulas come in male and female variants. The user base doesn't. What adding non-binary support to a nutrition app actually takes, beyond a third radio button.