Flowgramming

Today, I deleted two of my Linodes. Back then, I created one for my PHP-based projects and the other for my NodeJS-based ones. Since my day job is not development, I rarely log into any of them, as long as they are up.

I created a newly set up Nanode for n8n about three months ago. Self-hosting an n8n means you have to get your hands dirty with the bash commands again. I write .sh files for auto-laundrying the tiny Nanode to minimize the redundancy of disk sizes, docker resources, RAM... The scripts work well, and I wonder if I could do so with my long-time-no-see Linodes.

I spent all this weekend analyzing all the projects on the two Linodes. Firstly, I replaced most of them with n8n workflows. Then I migrated sites like this website into Docker containers, each one isolated within its sandbox, and the migration time was surprisingly and magically quicker than I thought.

After that, I kissed the no-longer-needed Linodes goodbye. Not only for saving a lot of monthly costs, but also for a neat working routine which is quick, centralized, and lean. This marked the day I stopped building things the traditional way as a developer, but instead, I began flowgramming them all as a flowgrammer.

Managed to be a creator again is one of the best things of 2025 for me. And, don't you ask, I am still sketching every day. Yay!