Monitoring, Alerting, and Incident Response
Set up lightweight monitoring and alerting for a solo-developer VPS, plus a post-incident checklist.
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Real-time messaging with Mercure SSE in PHP
How to build a real-time messaging system with Mercure server-sent events, covering threads, user blocking, and email digests.
Automated Patching and Server Maintenance
Configure automatic security patches, detect stale services with needrestart, and keep logs and Docker images from filling your disk.
Building a contact database for Indigenous harvesting authority governance
How I built a two-notebook pipeline using ISC profiles and community website scraping to collect governance contacts for ~637 First Nations communities across Canada.
Entity lifecycle hooks and batch operations in Waaseyaa
How to use preSave, postSave, preDelete, and postDelete hooks in Waaseyaa, with automatic pre-save validation and saveMany/deleteMany batch operations.
He spent two years letting cars drive him. Now he's back on horses.
A man spent two years letting cars drive him around. He’s back on horses. 865 engineers debated whether that means the cars are broken.
Managing LLM context in a real application
How Claudriel manages LLM context in production: conversation trimming, turn budgets, model fallback, prompt caching, and per-turn token telemetry.
This blog now accepts guest posts
Developers can now submit posts to this blog via pull request. No fees, no exclusivity, no nonsense.
Vibe coding isn't the problem. Your workflow is.
The critics of vibe coding aren’t wrong about the symptoms — they’re wrong about the cause.
Secrets, Certificates, and Credential Rotation
Manage .env files, encrypt secrets with Ansible Vault, and rotate credentials without downtime.