I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it onto the server starting it without dropping requests setting up HTTPS keeping secrets out of random .env files seeing logs without SSH archaeology making local dev look enough like production that cookies and OAuth stop being weird None of that is impossible. It is just a bunch of little chores stacked on top of each other. That pile of chores is why I started working on Tako .…