If you’ve ever typed npm run dev, refreshed a browser tab, and found yourself staring at the wrong project — you already know why Portless exists. Table of Contents Local development has a dirty little secret: port numbers are terrible identifiers. They collide, they’re impossible to memorize across a microservices stack, and they silently break things […]

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Today I made all my sites ‘Https Everywhere’, that is, every URL on these sites enforce the HTTPS (SSL) protocol. Non-secure HTTP requests get redirected to HTTPS. Here’s some notes on that journey. A big thanks to the folks @ Let’s Encrypt for providing the necessary certificates and support, all for free. I also owe […]

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