Self-hosting my projects without doing every deployment myself
Two Hetzner VMs, a Mac mini and an agent-operated deployment workflow: what I moved, how I check it works, and the maintenance I still own.
Developer relations · software · independent products
Developer relations, from someone who still ships code.
I write about developer relations, running AI on hardware I own, and the small native apps I build as side quests.
Marcos Placona — developer relations leader, consultant and builder of small local-first apps. More about me.
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101 articles
2026
My local agent spent a quarter of its context before I said anything
A measured audit of local coding-agent startup context: tool definitions, prefix caching, response reserve and the 9,700 tokens I recovered.
My Mac mini fits one model. I run five.
How a small OpenAI-compatible router lets one 48GB M4 Pro Mac mini safely serve several otherwise mutually exclusive local models.
2024
Boost Your Website Domain Rating with Redirects and Bot Control
Learn how to boost your website's Domain Rating (DR) with Cloudflare Workers by setting up 301 redirects and controlling Googlebot for better SEO performance.
2020
Modern Android Development: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
Part of my Modern Android Development series: what causes android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException and the right way to fix it today.
Modern Android Development: The problem of sources
Below is my series proposal for fixing the problem of too many sources of information and advocating modern Android Development one gist at a time.
2019
Building a video recording application in Android with CameraX
How CameraX replaced the old boilerplate-heavy camera APIs, making it far simpler to build a working video recording app on Android.
Android Jetpack and Lifecycles
This post highlights the benefits of using Android Jetpack and the Lifecycles components to guarantee integrity of your view's data
2016
OSX Pro Tip for .NET Environment Variables
This post will take you through the steps of using environment variables from within you Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac
Building a beautifully smart form in Android using RxJava
I don't think I know a single Android developer who's not stoked about Reactive Programming with RxAndroid right now. I totally dig the idea of…