SURVIVAL APPSWeb Apps
Projects built from scratch: dashboards, tools, utilities that solve real problems — often mine first. Python · Flask · SQLite.
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A channel that asks for nothing in return
Survival Apps has no newsletter. It has an RSS feed: no account, no tracking, no email list. Here's how it works and why.
What keeps a workshop standing.
Code only carries a project so far. Written by someone who recently sat down at the Officina bench.
The Law Always Comes Later
From seat belts to speed limits to today's AI Act: why the law meant to protect you from a technology always arrives years too late.
TRAUTOK STATION: my personal dashboard running on Python stdlib and SQLite
How my "command deck" is built: one HTML file with inline CSS/JS and a stdlib Python server (http.server + SQLite), seven panels and a node map.
Why I Started Using Claude Code (and What It Means for an Indie Dev)
An AI agent in an indie developer's terminal: what really changes, what doesn't, and how it fits a philosophy built on autonomy.
2026 and the Return to Self-Hosting: What It Means for a Solo Developer
Free tiers vanishing, prices multiplying tenfold, services shutting down: why more and more developers are going back to hosting their own apps.
Why I Build Independent Software: From the Commodore 64 to Today
The Survival Apps manifesto: forty years of self-taught code, a PhD in Pharmacognosy, and why "independent" is a precise technical choice.
First Connection
The opening transmission of Survival Apps: why this blog exists, who writes it, and the first project in the works — a dashboard in a single HTML file.