Beyond the Green Dot: Engineering Online Presence using GoLang

I'm building Bluppi, a music listening app, as a solo project. At some point I wanted to add a friends activity feed, the part of the home screen that shows which friends are online, what they're lis...

How I Got gRPC Working Through Cloudflare Tunnel (The Hard Way)

A complete guide to exposing a Go gRPC backend behind college NAT using Cloudflare Tunnel, Docker Compose, and TLS, including every mistake I made along the way. Background I'm a student building Bl

Firebase Draining Your Wallet? Here's How to Stop Paying for Every Single Read.

❗ In this blog, we’ll focus on using Dart/Flutter for our code examples, but keep in mind that you can apply these methods in any programming language. The key here is to focus on the techniques, not...