Het Weaby Journal

Aantekeningen onderweg naar productie.

Praktisch schrijven over software die blijft — infrastructuur, backends, interfaces en het minder spannende werk tussen een prototype en een product dat mensen daadwerkelijk gebruiken.

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Productie

From prototype to production: the unglamorous 20%

A vibe-coded prototype gets you to “it works on my machine.” The last stretch — auth, observability, deploys, the failure modes nobody demos — is where real products are won. Here is the checklist I run every time.

Jun 2, 20269 min leestijd
Infrastructuur

Secrets management without a platform team

You do not need a Vault cluster to stop leaking credentials. A pragmatic setup for solo builders and small teams that scales when you do.

May 24, 20266 min leestijd
Backend

Designing APIs your future self won’t curse

Naming, versioning, and error shapes are cheap to get right on day one and brutally expensive to fix later. A field guide.

May 17, 20267 min leestijd
App

On-device inference: shipping ML without a GPU bill

How a 1.2 MB ONNX model and a few hundred lines of glue replaced a recurring cloud cost — and made the product faster and more private.

May 9, 20268 min leestijd
Workflow

The agentic development loop I actually use

Less hype, more discipline: how I keep a codebase clean, tested, and fast to extend when an agent is writing half the diffs.

Apr 30, 202610 min leestijd
Infrastructuur

Observability for solo builders: the three signals that matter

Skip the dashboard sprawl. Track latency, error rate, and saturation well and you will catch almost everything before your users do.

Apr 21, 20265 min leestijd
Backend

Type-safe from the form to the database

One schema, validated at every boundary. How end-to-end types turn a class of runtime bugs into compile-time errors.

Apr 12, 20267 min leestijd