Tag: Architecture Decisions

The Job Redesign of a 2014 MacBook Pro: When the Truth Behind the Taking-Off Fan Was Dismantled, Docker Was Replaced by Three Native Binaries

The wish to expose a local NewAPI to the public internet came with an evaluation of the old MacBook as a VPS. After dismantling: a Mac at home still sits behind NAT, and a VPS is by definition a machine with a public IP in a datacentre — its correct role is an always-on low-power server, not a VPS. Tailscale on a phone fights the proxy VPN for the same system slot, an architectural constraint that cannot be routed around, which turned the public endpoint from optional to mandatory. And Hermes Telegram long-polling by default means the old Mac needs no public exposure at all. The final form is zero containers — NewAPI, wb2api, Hermes and the TG gateway as four native processes, with launchd plists replacing compose.