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Christian Tioye

21 Jun 2025 — 1 min read

Published on Jun 21st, 2025

Thanks, NeonDB !

I just started using NeonDB thanks to their generous free tier. I have migrated the SmartNotes application to NeonDB and recreated the notes.

June 19th, 2025 Update

On Juneteenth, I started the migration process to Neon DB. I rewrote the Prisma queries and updated the database links. The app is able to generate a new Prisma client and create new tables on the remote database.

June 20th, 2025 Update

The chat application works again for the SmartNotes app. However, there are lots of error messages in the Terminal, and I am not ready to deal with those right now. Will follow up on the next post..

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From Click-Ops to GitOps: Rebuilding the Afrotomation Fleet on k3s

Nine days ago I wrote a retrospective about migrating 47 apps from Vercel to Coolify. I was proud of that sprint. Then I went to live with the result. By the evening of April 23, 2026, I was back in front of a terminal typing this: "I have migrated

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AI Automation for Small Businesses: 2026 Guide

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