Notes

Graeme FultonJan 6

When building huge sites of up to 30k static blog posts for example, it can be really resource intensive, and not possible on smaller servers with limited CPU. For example for my site, I've got 8gb of RAM, and it still struggles to build a blog of 6000 pages.

Graeme FultonMay 22, 2025

Sometimes the best option is the simplest, even when it comes to databases. While many developers reach for Postgres or MySQL by default, might it be better to take the more lightweight approach to get something shipped? That’s where SQLite comes in handy – a

Graeme FultonMay 21, 2025

AI is great until it isn't. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf will confidently build whatever you ask for – but rarely do they question your choices, catch your mistakes (in what you ask), or warn you when you're heading towards trouble. I've been learning the da

Graeme FultonMay 7, 2025

I've just 'vibe coded' an entire app in Cursor – check it out: FeedBagel.com . It looks fine and works great, but the whole process left me wondering if I should ever have bothered. I managed to ship this MVP, but I sometimes find the frustration of vibe codin

Graeme FultonApr 29, 2025

I've been a Cursor subscriber for over a year, and I find its performance can vary depending on the project. Sometimes it's amazing, sometimes it's frustrating, a bit like the Illusion of AI Productivity chart: Today I spent $10 trying out the recent Claude 3.

Graeme FultonApr 24, 2025

This post will show you how to set up caching for GraphQL and Rest on Strapi 5, using the Strapi-Cache plugin and Redis. First, here's a bit of context and why I needed it: Even if your site is cached by Cloudflare or something different, you still may need ca

Graeme FultonApr 24, 2025

Prototypr is a publishing platform using Strapi for the CMS, and the site has an editor for users to draft and submit articles. This process relies on document versioning , and that didn't come with Strapi 4. Now versioning is available in Strapi 5 out the box

Graeme FultonApr 22, 2025

To get Discourse up and running on Coolify, I followed this guide by Cristian Buleandra : Running Discourse on Coolify Discourse does not officially provide a Docker image to run their forum software, which makes it harder to install on Coolify. Solution: Use

Graeme FultonJan 28, 2025

Since I've cut my server costs down from ~$300/m to ~$25/m thanks to Coolify and Hetzner , this post shares my journey away from DigitalOcean and Serverless, and how and why you could do it too! For context, Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable platform th

Graeme FultonJan 27, 2025

You can deploy Strapi on Coolify in 1 click from the projects dashboard – that's great for new projects, but what if you have an existing Strapi project in GitHub you want to deploy? This post will show you how! If you're deploying from GitHub, we deploy 2 thi

Graeme FultonJan 27, 2025

In a previous note, I wrote how to point a custom domain to your S3 bucket . It seemed to work, but when my Cloudflare domain was set to SSL full(strict) mode, I noticed some of the images had SSL invalid certificate errors. This can be solved with Cloudflare

Graeme FultonJan 27, 2025

I had a WordPress site with images in the wp-content/uploads folder. That WordPress site was shut down, but all my articles on the new site now had broken image links. I therefore needed a way to host all the images from my old WordPress uploads folder, but ke

Graeme FultonOct 24, 2024

If you're using Supabase, and have created tables in the Postgres database from outside of Supabase (e.g. with something like Prisma or Strapi), RLS (Row Level Security) won't be active on them. This means anyone querying via the Supabase API will be able to r

Graeme FultonAug 29, 2024

Here's a fun little app I made a while ago with Claude Artifacts. It lets you try all the different ways to centre a div with CSS (e.g. flexbox, grid, margins from a dropdown): There's also a ranking table of which method Claude recommends most: Seeing that Cl

Graeme FultonAug 26, 2024

Adobe Express is a 'content creation' tool for things like social media scheduling, banners, and even TikTok videos! There's also a lot of generative AI features, so it's not only fun to explore as a creator, but also as a plugin developer. I was surprised how

Graeme FultonAug 26, 2024

Over the last few years, I've found myself writing less on the web. Post views, likes, and follower counts seem to encourage content produced primarily for engagement. AI tools then accelerate that same content type, so everything starts looking the same. Mayb