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Latest — 16 Sep 2026

A simple path to financial peace of mind - seven dollar millionaire

Through the simple, we can understand the complex. That through nothing, we can understand everything. The secret to lasting happiness does not come through "more stuff" but less desires: the less we want, the happier we can be. If it is impossible to cling to nothing, less clinging

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Getting WhatsApp's Groups API Actually Working

Meta shipped a Groups API for WhatsApp Business — your business number can create groups, invite customers, and chat with up to 8 people in one thread. We spent three days wiring it into our CRM and testing every path against the live Graph API, and the honest summary is: the

Running Laravel Octane + FrankenPHP on Windows Without WSL2

This is a native-Windows story. If you've got WSL2 set up, you probably don't need any of this — pcntl exists there, FrankenPHP builds against your real PHP config, and neither of the two bugs below will ever show up. I didn't have that option,

Keeping a Self-Hosted Git Server in Sync With GitHub

If you're running a self-hosted Git server (OneDev, in my case) alongside GitHub as the real source of truth — for CI you can't run on GitHub Actions, for example — its copy of a repo is not a live mirror by default. You have to build that

Getting SonarQube Community Edition to Comment on GitHub PRs

SonarQube's free Community Build cannot decorate pull requests — no inline comments, no Quality Gate summary on the PR. That's officially gated to Developer Edition and above (paid). There's an unofficial, community-maintained plugin that unlocks it anyway: mc1arke/sonarqube-community-branch-plugin. Not supported by SonarSource, no upgrade

Setting Up OneDev on Windows Without Docker (Because Docker Wouldn't Start)

This is specifically a Windows story. Wanted to try OneDev — a self-hosted Git server with built-in CI/CD and Kanban boards, lighter than GitLab, more all-in-one than Gitea — on a Windows box. The official install path is docker run ..., which assumes Docker just works. Mine didn't: Docker Desktop

Meta's Marketing Messages API for WhatsApp — What I Got Wrong

Spent a chunk of a day chasing a staging bug that turned out to be me trusting old journal notes instead of the actual docs. Writing this down so I don't repeat it. (Not to be confused with WhatsApp's simple click-to-chat links — I wrote about those

How to Connect Your AI Assistant to Google Search Console and Analytics

I wanted Claude to pull real Search Console and GA4 data instead of me screenshot-ting graphs into a chat every time. Turns out it's a five-minute setup once you know where the permission actually lives — most of the friction is that it's split across two completely

Basic Memory MCP

I got tired of re-explaining my project to Claude every new chat. Same context, same background, every single time. Basic Memory fixes that. It's an MCP server. Instead of keeping memory locked inside one chat session, it writes everything to plain markdown files on your own disk. Next

Secure VPS in Ubuntu 20.04

SSH ssh [email protected] -i C:\Users\Madindo\.ssh\my_vps_root <aside> 💡 i can make config file like in linux for the config ssh in windows </aside> User adduser madindo deluser madindo {--remove-home} {--backup} ssh madindo@ip -i C:\Users\madin\.ssh\