https://chotigold.in/blog/ Notes on building iOS apps, web products and AI tools as an indie developer — what worked, what didn't, and what I'd do differently. en https://chotigold.in/blog/turning-an-old-oneplus-5t-into-a-headless-linux-server/ https://chotigold.in/blog/turning-an-old-oneplus-5t-into-a-headless-linux-server/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering A 2017 phone with a dead battery now runs postmarketOS, rootless Podman, nginx and a Cloudflare tunnel as a 1-watt home server. The wins, the traps, and the one-line kernel bug that nearly ended it. https://chotigold.in/blog/fixing-the-otp-keyboard-bounce-on-ios/ https://chotigold.in/blog/fixing-the-otp-keyboard-bounce-on-ios/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering On iPhone, our 4-box OTP screen made the keyboard slide down and pop back up on every digit typed. The culprit wasn't a rebuild or an animation — it was the input architecture itself. Here's the root cause, and the zero-dependency fix. https://chotigold.in/blog/hello-world-and-how-this-blog-works/ https://chotigold.in/blog/hello-world-and-how-this-blog-works/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Notes The first post, and a short tour of how writing here actually works — a Markdown file, a build, a deploy. No CMS, no database. https://chotigold.in/blog/one-command-deploys-to-cloudflare-pages/ https://chotigold.in/blog/one-command-deploys-to-cloudflare-pages/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering How this site goes from a folder on my Mac to chotigold.in in under ten seconds using wrangler's direct-upload mode — no Git integration required.