Why I folded my free tool into the agency site
Plugin Risk Score had its own domain for a while. Moving it onto the agency site was the right call — and the reasoning applies to most free tools.
Web developer, agency founder, and maker of small things.
I'm Josh — a UK-based web developer. I run Prystine, a web agency, and build products and tools across the web. This is where I write about building, shipping, and the occasional tangent.
I made my SaaS self-hostable. My laptop had been lying to me.
Stripping three vendor dependencies out of SendTidings was the easy part. The interesting bugs only turned up when I stopped testing on the one machine where everything already worked.
Why I swapped my MacBook for a Mac mini
Moving from an M1 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM to an M4 Pro Mac mini with 24GB — for local AI, long agent sessions, and a machine that never sleeps.
Lifting Times is back
I've rebuilt and relaunched Lifting Times, the Olympic weightlifting magazine I founded in 2015 — here's what's new and why it still matters to me.
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