Author
Andrius Lukminas
60 articles published
Product
DeepSeek TUI — AI-Powered Terminal Workspace
Rich Ratatui terminal UI with daemon mode, swarm orchestration, real-time streaming, session persistence, and mid-execution pushback. Built on DeepSeek V4.
1 day ago5 min
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Product
Glyph v1.0 — Lightning-Fast Codebase Indexer
Glyph builds a knowledge graph of your source code using tree-sitter AST parsing. Zero LLM cost. Answer structural questions in milliseconds.
1 day ago5 min
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Product
Introducing Skillforge — A Skill Manager for AI Coding Assistants
Skillforge lets you browse, install, publish, and manage SKILL.md skills across Claude Code, Hermes, Cursor, and Windsurf. Portable, shareable, versioned.
1 day ago4 min
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Platform Updates
How we think about trust: Boottify's data-handling posture in 2026
What information Boottify actually collects, how long we keep it, how we protect it at rest, and the short list of third parties that are ever part of the picture. A plain-English walk-through — not a legal document.
about 1 month ago5 min
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UI/UX
Mobile-first polish: how we rewrote 6 modals and re-centred a design system
Fixing 4 admin overlays that overflowed on iPhone SE, making the pricing comparison table behave, turning the deploy debug button into an opt-in support tool, and unifying a drifting brand colour across 34 files.
about 1 month ago5 min
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Security
Under the hood: how we hardened Boottify auth
Encrypting TOTP seeds and OAuth tokens at rest, fixing email enumeration on signup, tightening session timeouts, and closing a one-time-use race on password resets — a tour of the auth changes shipped in v3.6.0.
about 1 month ago6 min
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Engineering
From Local Disk to S3: Building a Dual-Provider Storage Layer
How we designed a storage abstraction that supports both local filesystem and S3 — with environment-driven switching, URL derivation, and zero application code changes when migrating between providers.
3 months ago9 min
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Developer Experience
Sharp + WebP: Server-Side Image Optimization in Next.js
A deep dive into our image optimization pipeline — using Sharp to resize, compress, strip EXIF data, and convert uploads to WebP with profile-specific presets for blog, avatar, and logo images.
3 months ago8 min
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Engineering
Building Production Email Infrastructure with AWS SES
How we built a production email system handling 18 transactional email types — from auth verification to billing receipts — with SES domain verification, template rendering, and delivery monitoring.
3 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Migrating Uploads to AWS S3 + CloudFront CDN
Why local disk storage doesn't scale for a SaaS platform, how we integrated S3 with CloudFront on cdn.boottify.com, and the storage abstraction that makes provider switching seamless.
3 months ago9 min
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Engineering
Responsive Image Thumbnailing: From 550KB to 5KB Per Image
How we built a 4-tier WebP thumbnail pipeline that generates responsive variants on upload, cutting blog image bandwidth by 93-99% — from 550KB originals to 5KB admin thumbnails.
3 months ago8 min
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Engineering
Building a Production Deployment Pipeline from Scratch
How we built a complete CI/CD pipeline with Docker multi-stage builds, Kubernetes deployments, real-time log streaming, and GitHub Actions webhooks — all managed through a single dashboard.
4 months ago8 min
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