When every summer storm is a high-severity alert
A safety-monitoring side project I run paged me at 09:00 with "dangerous weather conditions near you. Conditions: Thunderstorm." It was a routine summer…
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Disk full on the staging dir at 01:14 in the morning
I run a small S3-compatible proxy that fans writes across several cloud accounts to dodge per-account upload caps. It went into "all jobs stalled at 0…
Read →Routing 24 silent catches to a real error bus
The "blocked on solo dev constraint" note in my own bug log was wrong. The work wasn't blocked, I just hadn't done it. Enumerating the silent catches in…
Read →Never build new things inside the assistant
I built a small water-tracker for myself: pick a bottle preset, tap a button, get a daily total. First version landed as a few /water/* routes inside the…
Read →A tiny S3 proxy in front of a pool of Drive accounts
I had ~50 TB of media I wanted to back up off-site. Synology HyperBackup can speak S3. Google Drive Workspace gives you generous per-user storage, but…
Read →UI Automation beat my screenshot loop by 17x
I had built a Windows desktop agent around the obvious loop: take a screenshot, send the PNG to a vision LLM, ask where to click, click it, repeat. It…
Read →A dashboard deadlock from missing per-task timeouts
My homelab home page started returning 504 for its /api/dashboard route. Nothing else was obviously broken. The page just hung.
Read →Recovering orphaned jobs after a worker restart
A backup service kept getting into a state where the worker queue showed "running" jobs that nobody was actually working on. The in-memory job queue was…
Read →Hanging the API at scale: SQLite was the wrong default
A custom backup engine I wrote was happily writing tens of thousands of chunk rows to SQLite. Then I bumped concurrency from two backup jobs to ten, and…
Read →Moderate risk alert at midnight, awake at the desk
A side-project safety app generated a moderate-severity risk alert for me at 00:28 local time. I was at my desk, awake, trading messages with two…
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