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@wadethomastt

Wade Thomas

@wadethomastt·Arima, Trinidad & Tobago·Joined March 2026

"... so the curse causeless, shall not come"

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I'm a full stack developer interested in anything, TanStack Start, Directus, Tailwindcss v4, Shadcn, Zustand and Coolify.

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Freelance work, contract work, consultancy,

Wade Thomas's blogs

The Real Stackblog.northernrangedigital.com13 posts

About

I'm a full stack developer interested in anything, TanStack Start, Directus, Tailwindcss v4, Shadcn, Zustand and Coolify.

Available for

Freelance work, contract work, consultancy,

Wade Thomas's blogs

The Real Stackblog.northernrangedigital.com13 posts

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WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·1d ago · 7 min read

Setting Up Directus on a Coolify VPS (And Fixing the "Unhealthy" Error)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMX1Rk1HTZo Introduction Directus is a backend for developers. It can connect to any SQL database and asset storage, and it provides developer tooling — which the Dire

WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 23 · 5 min read

Coolify: The Complete Manual Setup Guide (For When the Auto-Install Script Won't Cut It)

Coolify's one-line install script is great — until it isn't. Right now it officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 LTS. If you're running anything newer (Ubuntu's already on 26.04 LTS), the

WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 14 · 5 min read

The Ansible Playbook that will Harden Your VPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8IW8F1mxA Introduction In this post I'm sharing 3 Ansible playbooks I use to manage my VPS servers. I won't go into great detail on tasks here — if you're new to Ans

WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 10 · 5 min read

Ansible Installation and Configuration on Ubuntu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8ID8j_gLg Introduction What is Ansible? Ansible is an automation language that can describe any IT environment, whether homelab or large-scale infrastructure. It is

WTWade Thomasinblog.northernrangedigital.com·Jul 2 · 5 min read

How to Secure a VPS: The Complete Ubuntu Hardening Guide

This guide walks through the baseline hardening I run on every fresh Ubuntu server before deploying anything to it: creating a proper user account, locking down root, setting up a firewall, quieting b