Welcome to the blog

This is mdg-labs.dev/blog — where we write about the things we build and the choices behind them.

MDG Labs is a small, independent studio (Ottensheim, Austria). We ship focused tools — SlugBase for bookmarks and short links, PipeWatch for GitHub Actions visibility — as open-core software: source on GitHub, self-hostable CE, managed Cloud when you want zero ops.

What you’ll find here

• Philosophy & product — why open-core, what we’re building, for whom
• Engineering notes — Astro, infrastructure, monorepo patterns we use in production
• Shipping updates — releases, milestones, honest “in development” status

We publish in English and German. RSS feeds are per locale (/blog/rss.xml).

Start here

Our first long-form post is Why we build open-core — the framing for everything else on this site.

For the studio backstory, see About. For code, github.com/mdg-labs.