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Building a conformant stdio MCP server in PHP
The wire-level rules that make a stdio MCP server correct in PHP - one writer to stdout, a bounded read with no natural limit, and a handshake that tells old clients from new ones.
A loopback-only proxy for prototyping northway's feed reader
How northway’s browser prototype keeps its API key off client JavaScript with a loopback-only Node proxy, before any of it reaches the production Pi build.
Fixing a cache:clear command that couldn't run and couldn't be trusted
How Waaseyaa’s cache:clear command couldn’t even run in production, and how a hardcoded bin list quietly reported success while clearing the wrong cache entirely.
Fixing a silent message-drop bug in Waaseyaa's queue worker
How Waaseyaa’s queue worker silently acknowledged persistent messages with no matching handler, and the fail-closed fix that routes them through retry and the failed-job repository instead.
Fixing a schema-mutating access check in Waaseyaa's taxonomy package
How Waaseyaa’s taxonomy package let ordinary request traffic ALTER a table to add a foreign key, and the fix that moved that DDL exclusively into coordinated schema sync.
Stop letting a failing audit logger crash requests that already succeeded
Why a throwing audit logger in Waaseyaa’s MCP endpoint could crash a request after its outcome was already decided, and the containment pattern that fixed it.
Stop walking the filesystem in your CI gates — ask git instead
Why Waaseyaa’s CI gate scanners stopped walking the filesystem with a hand-maintained exclusion list and started asking git what’s actually in the repository.
Fixing a silent truncation bug in Waaseyaa's StreamHttpClient
How Waaseyaa’s StreamHttpClient silently turned a truncated, over-limit response body into an HTTP 200, and the fail-closed fix that rejects incomplete bodies instead of guessing.
A nested git worktree broke our pre-push gate
A stray PHPStan cache in a nested git worktree got scanned as production code, showing why filesystem-exclusion rules for local gates need to match at any depth.
Keep SQLite data in a private child directory, not at the Docker volume root
Mounting a durable volume straight onto the directory you chmod’d in the image throws away that permission — bake a private child path instead.