The fastest way to get a slow reply
Customers increasingly forward us AI-generated diagnoses of their own problems. Most of it is confidently wrong − and confidence was never the same thing as correctness.…
Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
University drop-out turned web developer, building Magic Pages, a Ghost CMS hosting service. On this blog I share insights from my entrepreneurial journey.
56 posts
The Cost of Copying Things That Haven't Changed
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For years I stored a full copy of every Magic Pages site, every day. Twelve days of history meant twelve nearly-identical copies. Then I did the maths.…
The Load-Bearing Number
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In January I said I'd never build my own data centre. Then Hetzner raised their prices, and a server that cost me €70 now costs €452. This one number quietly rewrote the maths under Magic Pages − and why it's worth checking which number is holding up your business.…
How I Feel About AI
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I've had this draft open for three months. Not because I didn't have thoughts. But because I couldn't pick a side. Turns out, that might be the point.…
AI deploys software. It doesn't operate it.
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AI made deploying software cheap. AI made finding vulnerabilities cheap. AI did not make maintaining software cheap. That gap is going to break a lot of self-hosted sites.…
A little secret
You Don't Need to Pay $200/Month
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I ran 20 real-world TypeScript coding tasks against 16 LLMs. The most expensive model scored 98.8%. An open-weights model scored 94.8%.…
Open means open. Or it means nothing.
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🫠This post probably won't make me popular with Entri. Neither will it create friends at GoDaddy nor IONOS. And that's fine. But I'm not writing this to pick a fight. I'm writing it be…
Maybe I Don't Want to Do This Alone
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For three years, I ran Magic Pages alone. I liked it that way. Make a decision, execute, move on. No meetings. No alignment. No explaining myself. Just me and my work. When people asked if I'd e…
The Weight of the Good Days
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Two days ago, I had 1,200 websites go down. Cascading Docker failures, a swarm that refused to rebuild, datacenter capacity issues, and me sitting on my couch trying to hold it all together. That…
Updating 1,200 Ghost Sites
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This is the ninth post in a series about rebuilding the Magic Pages infrastructure. Previous posts: Rebuilding the Magic Pages Infrastructure in Public, The Townhouse in the Middle, Requirements First…
Fighting Ghost Magic Link Spam (and Rethinking My CDN)
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If you've been following along, you know I spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about infrastructure. This post is about a problem I've been really really annoyed with for the last co…