Auditing 22 references to GSIs that don't exist
A pre-release audit pass on a backend I run turned up 22 places where the code passed IndexName: foo-index to a DynamoDB query on a table where foo-index…
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Sixty-five lines ahead of git, in production
I went to deploy a fix to a backend Lambda and stopped halfway through because the file I was about to overwrite was 65 lines ahead of the repo…
Read →Heartbeats were polluting my activity table
The phone in a side-project safety app posts a stationary_heartbeat every few minutes when it's not moving — so the server knows the device is alive even…
Read →Voice on watchOS without the Speech framework
I wanted to talk to my homelab assistant from the Apple Watch. Action Button down, dictate, get a spoken reply back. Standard project except for one…
Read →The arr stack wasn't crashing, qBittorrent was thrashing
I caught a
Read →Push notifications only firing on the final assistant message
My homelab assistant runs as a Claude Code agent in the background. When it finishes a long task, it pushes a notification to my phone with the result…
Read →Mining 18,000 emails for facts about my own life
I had three years of email sitting in a DynamoDB table and a memory store wired into my assistant. The assistant was making decisions with no recall of…
Read →Personal mail as a serverless pipeline (and a forwarder identity trap)
I wanted every email to my personal domains stored in DynamoDB as the primary read surface, with Google Workspace continuing to receive a copy as a cold…
Read →Multi-select with context-aware bulk actions
I built multi-select for the mail reader UI and then almost shipped a bad version of the bulk-archive button. The fix was making the button's behavior…
Read →MIME bodies disguised as attachments
My mail reader was showing
Read →Empty bubbles on iOS when the assistant only called tools
The iOS client kept showing blank assistant bubbles in the middle of a multi-step turn. Pull-to-refresh fixed it. Notifications fired fine. The text was…
Read →Dynamo as inbox, with a passkey
I built a single-page mail reader on top of the DynamoDB table my mail pipeline writes to. Three-pane layout (inbox list / messages / body), search…
Read →Designing a receipt matcher for my financial dashboard
Most of my transactions have a receipt sitting in Gmail somewhere. I just want to be able to click a charge in my finance dashboard and see the actual…
Read →Two weeks of silent torrent failures from one chown
Nothing new had landed in my movie library since the 4th of the month. Radarr looked healthy, the queue was just stuck at 321 items. Most of them showed…
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