2026.07.03
Hosting
A working engineer's guide to self-hosting a static site on a $4 VPS in 2026 — Caddy, Cloudflare, automated deploys, and the engineering practices that make a small site fast, reliable, and cheap to run.
Winson Yau · 10 min read
10 min
2026.06.26
ASP.NET
A working engineer's guide to Minimal APIs in .NET 9 — when the endpoint-as-a-function model beats controllers, when it does not, and the small set of conventions that make a Minimal API codebase feel like one.
Winson Yau · 10 min read
10 min
2026.06.19
Flutter
A working engineer's guide to calling Rust from Flutter in 2026 — FFI, flutter_rust_bridge, the cases where the pairing wins, and the cases where you should reach for something simpler instead.
Winson Yau · 10 min read
10 min
2026.06.12
AI Tech
A working engineer's guide to vector databases in mid-2026 — embeddings, ANN indexes, the choices that matter in production, and when you do not need a vector DB at all.
Winson Yau · 10 min read
10 min
2026.06.05
Hosting
A working engineer's defense of using Postgres for async work in 2026 — the operational story, the at-least-once delivery pattern, and the surprising places where a dedicated broker is the wrong answer.
Winson Yau · 10 min read
10 min
2026.05.29
Hosting
A working engineer's guide to edge compute in mid-2026 — what the edge is good for, where the regional cloud still wins, and the engineering practices that make edge functions feel right in production.
Winson Yau · 11 min read
11 min