How to keep an LLM from sounding like an LLM (on a CV)
Specific bans beat vague style guidance. Prompt rules from the EverCV renderer.
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The smoke test caught a real prod bug on the first run
I wrote a post-deploy smoke test for my SaaS the way you're supposed to: small, focused, fail-the-deploy-if-the-URL-doesn't-serve-what-you-just-uploaded. Then I ran it against production. The test failed. The bug had been live for four days.
Read →Cass-failover: the Route 53 trick I should have used years ago
Route 53 has a failover routing policy that's been there forever and I've never used it for the obvious thing: keeping a homelab service answerable from the public cloud when a hurricane takes the house down.
Read →The repo with the same name was the dead app
I spent a couple of hours one afternoon making changes to what I thought was the current iOS source tree for a side project, running builds, watching…
Read →Draining a job queue before redeploying
A long-running service that does work in the background needs a deploy strategy that doesn't drop work on the floor. This is the rule I landed on after…
Read →Generating a leather pattern as a tabloid-size PDF
I wanted a coffin-shaped wallet pattern I could print and saddle-stitch. Online templates are mostly rectangles. The interesting work was turning a…
Read →A 7-day forward lens for the things I already track
I have a morning briefing that summarizes today (weather, todos, calendar, bills, sobriety counter). Useful. But it's only today, and it's spoken once on…
Read →Hurricane failover for a homelab assistant without paying Bedrock prices
My homelab assistant lives on an LXC in the garage. Hurricane season runs June through November on the Gulf Coast. A two-week power loss takes my whole…
Read →Brand-aware location reminders without a custom geocoder
I wanted to add
Read →When every summer storm is a high-severity alert
A safety-monitoring side project I run paged me at 09:00 with
Read →Gradle OOM on Android builds: just give the JVM more heap
Android build was failing partway through with a Gradle OutOfMemoryError. First few times I assumed it was a flaky CI worker. Then it failed locally too.
Read →Three permission dialogs for a working safety app on Android
A safety app I shipped for personal use on Android needs three distinct runtime permissions to actually do its job. Walking a first-time user through…
Read →A tiny garden sprinkler watcher that only texts when it matters
I turned the garden sprinkler off because rain was forecast for a week. The question is: when do I turn it back on? I do not want to check a weather app…
Read →Routing 24 silent catches to a real error bus
The
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