Software engineering, systems thinking, and building in public.6 posts
My database had two postmortems. My live site showed one. Nothing was broken, a cache was doing exactly what I told it to do. A field guide to the four ways of keeping a Next.js site fresh, and the strategy I shipped that night.
Read post →What started as a noisy fan turned into a full filesystem recovery. Here's the exact trail of commands that saved my machine — from spotting EXT4 journal errors to running fsck from a live USB.
Read post →Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Tailwind. Here's the honest reasoning behind each choice — including what I'd swap out.
Read post →I built TradeLog to understand my trading patterns. Six months in, the data showed things I wasn't ready to see.
Read post →Upgrading to Prisma 7 introduced a new engine model that requires driver adapters. Here's exactly what failed, why, and the fix.
Read post →Most developers ship and move on. I ship and write a postmortem. Here's why that habit changed how I build software.
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