I self-host bajingles, shelolo and Gitwarden. All niche technologies but since the invasion of Greenland and Russia occupying Poland we have to take matters into our own hands and self-host every aspect of our lives, thank you for the inspiration!

I had to pull an all nighter to fix some unoptimized query because I had just launched a new website with barely any visitors and hadn’t implemented caching yet for something that I thought no one uses anyway, but a bot found it and broke my entire DB through hitting the endpoint again and again until nothing worked anymore