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.
Devops
A missing npm ci silently starved the content-mining pipeline for a week
A missing npm ci let schema validation crash on every mined candidate, filing zero content-queue issues for a week — the fix layers a loud fail-open guard over the actual root-cause patch.
Hardening a manual Claude Code review workflow in GitHub Actions
How a human-triggered ‘@claude review’ workflow got locked down to read-only, bounded-diff, revision-verified reviews after the official tag-mode example turned out to be implementation-capable by default.
Day One of the Content Pipeline: What Broke and What I Fixed
First-run lessons from an automated content pipeline. Noise, human-only merges, and a backwards production step surfaced in 24 hours.
Automate your content pipeline with GitHub Actions and Issues
Build a daily content mining pipeline that scans your repos and queues post ideas as GitHub issues.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Automate backups, test restores, and build a disaster recovery runbook for your VPS.
Generate Open Graph images with Playwright and an HTML template
Build a script that generates consistent OG social card images from an HTML template using Playwright screenshots, with smart caching and series-aware gradients.
Deploying Mercure alongside Caddy on a shared VPS
How to run Mercure for real-time SSE alongside Caddy as your web server, with solutions for port conflicts, gzip interference, and JWT configuration.
Monitoring, Alerting, and Incident Response
Set up lightweight monitoring and alerting for a solo-developer VPS, plus a post-incident checklist.
Automated Patching and Server Maintenance
Configure automatic security patches, detect stale services with needrestart, and keep logs and Docker images from filling your disk.