Long-form, opinionated reviews of the software we end up recommending anyway. Some links pay us. We say so on each one.
We tried them. They tried us. Five tools, ranked by how often they made things worse before they made things better.
If you run client work alone, here is the smallest stack that lets you sleep. Most lists you've read are wrong about three of them.
It is not a database. It is sometimes a database. It is rarely the database you wanted. Here is when it's the right call anyway.