June 23, 2026
posts, drafts, and a comment tree that took longer than the posts did
How the blog service models posts, slugs, drafts and scheduled publishing, a nested comment tree, likes and reports, on top of Postgres migrations.
Field notes from the homelab.
Learning to build and self-host things in my spare time, from Lovund, an island off the Helgeland coast.
June 2026
June 22, 2026
the part of the blog you never see
How accounts, password hashing, tokens and cookies, refresh rotation, and rate limiting work under the hood of this blog's login page.
June 21, 2026
How I ended up building this blog instead of just using WordPress
The honest, slightly overcomplicated story of why I built and self-host this blog myself instead of using a ready-made platform.