3 posts tagged with "Development"

I've been dropping rclone into every new project since January. Once you watch encrypted dumps land in R2 in the time it takes to refill a coffee, every managed-backup-as-a-Service feels like paying rent on somebody else's wizard.

Latest one is play.lecodex.xyz — small Postgres, single VPS, the kind of side project where one bad migration erases a weekend and the only insurance is the dump you forgot to run. Managed backups at $5–$20/month? Fine for a company, painful for a project paying its own server bill.

So: free, encrypted, off-site. $0/month if the database stays inside the R2 free tier. Here's the setup that's been running daily since.

Building a secure, feature-rich development environment shouldn't require weeks of configuration and security research. That's why I created DevBox — an automated provisioning script that transforms a fresh Ubuntu VPS into a production-ready development workstation in minutes.

Looking to sharpen your cybersecurity skills? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, these platforms offer hands-on challenges that will test and improve your abilities across various domains of information security. From pwn, web exploitation to OSINT investigations, here's your complete guide to the best CTF platforms and training games available. You can also find few games for all levels on my Discord