Security
Login Form Validation: Why You Check Twice
Your login form checks the email, yet your server still takes anything. Learn what browser and server validation each do, and build both, with a live demo.
23 Oct 2026 · 19 min
Production
Deploys, logging, security and rollbacks. 10 articles, newest first.
DevOps & Infrastructure
Structured Logging in Next.js: From console.log to Searchable Events
Production breaks and you have ten thousand log lines. Structured logging — JSON events, honest levels, request IDs — finds you the five lines that matter.
20 Oct 2026 · 11 min
Cloud & Hosting
Shipping a Next.js App to Production: The Complete Playbook
The complete launch sequence for a solo Next.js developer: pre-flight checks, deploys, DNS, monitoring, rollback, and the smoke test that saves launch day.
20 Oct 2026 · 17 min
Security
NextAuth vs Better Auth vs Rolling Your Own: Picking Auth in 2026
NextAuth, Better Auth, hosted, or your own sessions — an honest 2026 comparison built on the one question that outlives the hype: who owns your user table.
20 Oct 2026 · 11 min
DevOps & Infrastructure
Rollback Strategies for Small Teams: No Feature Flags Required
You don't need LaunchDarkly to survive a bad deploy. A decision protocol, your host's rollback button, git revert, and an env-var kill switch cover it.
20 Oct 2026 · 11 min
Cloud & Hosting
Domains, DNS, SSL and Email: The Launch-Day Setup Nobody Teaches
DNS, SSL and email authentication explained as a system — registrars, records, propagation, SPF, DKIM, DMARC — so launch day is a checklist, not a panic.
20 Oct 2026 · 12 min
DevOps & Infrastructure
Observability for a Solo Developer: Know It Broke Before Users Tell You
A solo SaaS monitoring stack on free tiers: uptime checks, Sentry error triage, cookieless analytics — and the 15-minute weekly review that keeps it honest.
20 Oct 2026 · 11 min
Security
Rate Limiting Your Next.js API: Before You Need It
Credential stuffing, surprise API bills, and runaway retry loops end the same way. How to rate limit Next.js API routes — and make it survive serverless.
20 Oct 2026 · 12 min
Cloud & Hosting
Vercel vs Self-Hosting Next.js: The Honest Comparison
Vercel fans call self-hosting masochism; self-hosters call Vercel a tax. Both are sometimes right — here is the math that tells you which one you are.
20 Oct 2026 · 11 min
Cloud & Hosting
Deploying Full-Stack Apps to Vercel: The Definitive Guide
A real Next.js and Postgres app, from repo to production on Vercel: environment discipline, pooled connections, preview URLs, rollback, and honest costs.
14 Feb 2026 · 9 min