A public build-log — what I build and learn. https://log.ozzo.blog/ en-us <p>Moved buildlog off DigitalOcean onto Hetzner today. The droplet was a 1GB box sitting at 650MB with a single app on it and swap already doing real work, while a 4GB Hetzner server I bought back in July has been running completely empty.</p> <p>The cutover itself cost about six minutes of downtime, all of it self-inflicted. I flipped DNS before stopping the old proxy, so Let’s Encrypt kept validating against the droplet, got its existing certificate back instead of the challenge, and burned the five-failed-authorizations-per-hour limit before the new box ever got a chance. Next time the old proxy stops at the same moment the record changes.</p> <p>One box instead of two, four times the RAM, automatic backups on, and about €50 a year cheaper.</p> Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:35:32 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/8 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/8 <p>Just merged two prs after noticing my chackra-ui project had security updates to do.</p> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:20:55 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/7 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/7 <p>Linked buildlog from ozzo.blog/projects today. Proof-led layout ordered by focus and effort, with buildlog as the first now-shipping card. Fixed cards not being tappable on mobile and cleaned up the detail-page copy. Also leaning toward closing bet 1 now instead of holding to week 6: the no-gos boundary kept slipping without a real pitch behind it.</p> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:21:58 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/6 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/6 <p>Shipped the feedback loop for buildlog today: a public /feedback page, Tally form, GitHub issue templates, and the fixes from review are live in production. I am stopping the feature work here for the day; tomorrow is launch surface work: link it from ozzo.blog/projects, review the article, and write the launch post.</p> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:14:26 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/5 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/5 <p>Realized today that my Bet 1 roadmap was invented on day zero without a real pitch: it quietly re-added scope I’d already agreed to cut. Rewrote the process to require a written pitch before any plan, then retrofitted Bet 1 to match. Turns out the 6-week bet only needed about two weeks.</p> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:19:25 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/4 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/4 <p>Merged the design refresh: mint/teal/coral color system, entry cards, updated auth forms. Turns out Rails does not generate a social preview by default, so every link to log.ozzo.blog showed a bare title until today. Added og:image and twitter:card meta tags plus a 1200x630 image. Live now.</p> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:49:01 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/3 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/3 <p>Spent today fixing three real bugs before shipping the next feature: DigitalOcean silently blocks outbound SMTP by default so the password-reset email needed Resend’s HTTP API instead. Staging shared its database with local dev until I isolated it, and the Tailwind watcher wasn’t actually watching in the container.</p> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:07:51 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/2 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/2 <p>Dropped Synergym after a year of building. Shipping small Rails apps in public instead, one every 6 weeks. This is entry #1</p> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:21:47 +0200 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/1 https://log.ozzo.blog/entries/1