My previous server — a Banana Pi running Debian — had served its purpose for years, but performance limitations and lack of support for newer technologies prompted me to upgrade. The main goal was to move to a container-based architecture and elimina…
The project started during a remote Sylius setup — configured entirely over SSH from a phone. The process was repetitive enough to warrant automating, so I put together a DDEV boilerplate. It got shared publicly before I considered it finished, so I …
This is the follow-up to my 2016 Let's Encrypt post using acme.sh and Apache. That setup worked, but running certificates by hand doesn't scale once you're managing multiple services in Docker. Traefik solves this entirely. Traefik is a reverse proxy…
This is a historical record of the setup I used in 2016 — acme.sh and Apache on Debian Jessie. It worked reliably at the time. For a modern approach using Docker and Traefik, see the followup post. Let's Encrypt had just left beta and was issuing fre…
You want to peek at something behind a registration wall — a PDF download, a demo, a forum thread. You don't need an account, you just need to get past the email verification. So you create yet another throwaway Gmail, wait for the confirmation link,…
Corporate website for Alfa Consilium, a licensed insurance broker and financial advisory firm. Designed and built on WordPress with a custom PHP theme, covering desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints. This was a full-scope project: visual design and…
This is a historical record of my home server setup from 2015. It served reliably for several years before I migrated to a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2026. See how it evolved: Raspberry Pi 5: Migration to NVMe and service containerization. Some time ago I bec…
After seven years on the old fixed-width design, I rebuilt holas.pl from scratch in 2015 with a fully responsive WordPress theme. The core change was architectural: replacing two separate templates (desktop layout + mobile skin served via user-agent …
PHPers is one of the largest PHP developer communities in Poland — a network of meetups running in cities including Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, and Trójmiasto. Each chapter brings together local PHP developers for talks, discussions, and network…
Website for Bifor, a Gdańsk venue whose name captures the concept: a place to come before — before work, classes, or a night out. Built on WordPress with a custom PHP theme, implemented from a designer-provided mockup. The implementation covered thre…