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7 Oct 2026

Why I think a simple RuneScape Twitter bot helped me get into tech, and what its Python and Go versions taught me about unpaid maintenance.

1 Oct 2026

October's free-tier check: Railway SSH VMs, Neon's backend, Vercel Drives, and corrections to Modal, Lightning and Freestyle credits and limits.

4 Sep 2026

September 2026 free-tier changes: Deno cuts, D1 hard limits, agent sandboxes and corrections to Freestyle, Browserless, Firebase and Axiom.

3 Aug 2026

August 2026 free VPS, databases, GPU notebooks and agent sandboxes, with a dated catalogue of quotas and links to later corrections.

10 Jul 2026

July 2026 free-tier changes: Oracle VM limits, Deno migration, agent sandboxes and GPU options, with trials separated from recurring allowances.

2 Jul 2026

My workflow uses Linear as an idea ledger, Wispr Flow for dictation and agents to turn rough notes into projects and posts.

30 Jun 2026

Using autonomous coding-agent runs as a low-cost way to find ideas, learn unfamiliar topics, and seed later projects.

30 Jun 2026

An interactive graph maps my site's pages and outbound links, exposing its biggest link hub and giving a growing personal archive a visible shape.

28 Jun 2026

A June 2026 snapshot of free VPS hosting, databases, serverless platforms and AI compute, including the limits behind the offers.