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Serving Sites from Your Dev Server
Side projects shouldn’t cost more than they have users. Here’s how I moved mine off a $75/mo hosting bill and onto Docker on my dev server: a Cloudflare Tunnel with no open ports, a trusted CF-Connecting-IP header, JVM memory sized from container limits, a deploy script that tests itself before it touches production, and encrypted off-site backups to R2. It’s not high availability. It’s a home server. But the bill is zero.
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Feedhouse
A feed reader in the spirit of Google Reader. You pick the sources, it shows what's new in the order it was published, and nothing ranks your feed for you. RSS, YouTube, podcasts, Mastodon and Bluesky, with read later, highlights and full-text search. Built on BoxLang and BoxExpress.
Visit feedhouse.app
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DismalThreads
A community of groups, posts and threaded comments, rebuilt from bxThreads. Join public groups or ask into private ones, follow friends, and react and reply with everything updating live. Built on BoxLang and BoxExpress, with a React front end.
Visit dismalthreads.com
boxlang-express
An Express.js-style API for building lightweight HTTP servers in BoxLang.
bx-activitypub
ActivityPub federation for BoxLang apps — publish posts to Mastodon and the fediverse, and accept public replies back.
bx-zork
A from-scratch text-adventure parser engine in BoxLang, loaded with the world of Zork I.
coldbox-graphql
A schema-agnostic ColdBox module that serves a GraphQL API from SDL files you supply.
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