Productivity boost through thoughtful tech.https://productive.me/en-gbhttps://productive.me/journal/introducing-minutebible-time-based-scripture-reading/https://productive.me/journal/introducing-minutebible-time-based-scripture-reading/A Progressive Web App that connects the current time to Bible verses, transforming everyday minutes into moments of reflection. Read scripture based on time or date, with automatic syncing highlights and a distraction-free reading mode.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildspreactgraphqlpwafaithproducthttps://productive.me/journal/introducing-bookmarks-bar-privacy-first-bookmark-manager/https://productive.me/journal/introducing-bookmarks-bar-privacy-first-bookmark-manager/A minimal, privacy-focused bookmark manager that lives in your browser. Open source, stores data in your GitHub Gist, and works on any webpage you visit. No extensions, no signup, no tracking.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildsjavascriptprivacyproducthttps://productive.me/journal/building-chorequest-gamified-chore-management/https://productive.me/journal/building-chorequest-gamified-chore-management/How we built ChoreQuest, a gamified chore management system that transforms household tasks into timed adventures with virtual economies, AI-generated images, and PWA technology.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildssolidjsmeteorproducthttps://productive.me/journal/lightning-fast-ci-meteor3-solidjs-vite-on-arm64/https://productive.me/journal/lightning-fast-ci-meteor3-solidjs-vite-on-arm64/Reduce Meteor 3.3 deployment times from 30+ minutes to under 5 minutes with our two-tier deployment strategy using SolidJS, Vite, and ARM64 architecture.Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTnotesci-cdmeteorsolidjsarm64https://productive.me/journal/hosting-mongodb-single-instance-replicaset-with-docker/https://productive.me/journal/hosting-mongodb-single-instance-replicaset-with-docker/Setting up a MongoDB Docker instance that supports oplog tailing and change streams for developmentWed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTnotesmongodbdockerhttps://productive.me/journal/caprover-and-uwsgi/https://productive.me/journal/caprover-and-uwsgi/Getting a uwsgi python app to deploy to caprover, here's my tip.Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTnotescaproverpythondevopshttps://productive.me/journal/how-to-deploy-a-node-js-app-with-meteor-up/https://productive.me/journal/how-to-deploy-a-node-js-app-with-meteor-up/A small, durable deploy story: how to ship a Node.js app to a single VPS with Meteor-Up — and why that is still a reasonable answer in 2026.Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTnotesmeteordeploydevopshttps://productive.me/journal/self-hosted-nexus-for-private-scoped-npm-packages/https://productive.me/journal/self-hosted-nexus-for-private-scoped-npm-packages/Setting up a self-hosted Nexus artifact repository for private, scoped package hosting.Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTnotesself-hostednpmdevopshttps://productive.me/journal/self-hosted-password-manager/https://productive.me/journal/self-hosted-password-manager/Own your secrets. A walk-through of running a self-hosted password manager — the thoughtful-tech case for keeping your data where you can see it.Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTnotesself-hostedprivacyhttps://productive.me/journal/setting-up-zsh-on-a-new-mac/https://productive.me/journal/setting-up-zsh-on-a-new-mac/Since the newer versions of OSX ship with a very old version of bash and Apple strongly recommends switching to zsh, I gave it a go.Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTnotesmacshellworkstation