After years of incremental maintenance on the original PHP codebase, WriteDaily is getting a long planned architecture upgrade to Laravel. The new stack brings Eloquent models,...
Before the Laravel migration goes live, there's groundwork to do. Here's how I'm approaching database hardening, backup verification, and security hygiene for a tool that holds...
Five years of daily writing on writedaily.co. I pulled my own stats to see if the habit was actually delivering what I thought it was. The data was more revealing than expected.
WriteDaily has been running for over four years. No revenue, no team, no venture backing — just regular maintenance and a small, loyal user base. Here's what I've learned about...
As cloud based writing tools multiply, the question of who can read your private writing becomes more urgent. Here's how WriteDaily handles your data, what we protect, and what...
Two years and 25,000 writing sessions into WriteDaily, the daily writing tool at writedaily.co has taught me more about habit formation, product design, and the gap between...
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18 months in, WriteDaily's auto save has processed 500,000 save operations without a single lost word. Here's what makes the reliability layer work and why it matters for any...
WriteDaily now exports your writing to Markdown and plain text. Every word you write belongs to you — here's what we shipped and how we think about data portability.
A year into WriteDaily, the daily writing tool at writedaily.co has processed over 10,000 sessions. This post reflects on what the data says about writing habits, the technical...
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