Guides, architectural notes, and case studies from building production web systems.
How I wired this blog to auto-post to LinkedIn on publish, and the LinkedIn API version bug that made it far more annoying than it should have been.
A random security news article sent me down a path of testing my own homelab with nmap and Qualys SSL Labs, and what I found out about my own setup along the way.
A Reddit thread about how YouTube scales its database sent me down a rabbit hole through Vitess, Citus, Aurora, and Redis internals, only to realize I have about four users per project.
How I added a cheap, OpenRouter-powered Q&A chatbot to my portfolio site — and why OpenRouter beat going direct to a single model provider.