When every summer storm is a high-severity alert
A safety-monitoring side project I run paged me at 09:00 with
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Gradle OOM on Android builds: just give the JVM more heap
Android build was failing partway through with a Gradle OutOfMemoryError. First few times I assumed it was a flaky CI worker. Then it failed locally too.
Read →Three permission dialogs for a working safety app on Android
A safety app I shipped for personal use on Android needs three distinct runtime permissions to actually do its job. Walking a first-time user through…
Read →A tiny garden sprinkler watcher that only texts when it matters
I turned the garden sprinkler off because rain was forecast for a week. The question is: when do I turn it back on? I do not want to check a weather app…
Read →Routing 24 silent catches to a real error bus
The
Read →Disk full on the staging dir at 01:14 in the morning
I run a small S3-compatible proxy that fans writes across several cloud accounts to dodge per-account upload caps. It went into
Read →UI Automation beat my screenshot loop by 17x
I had built a Windows desktop agent around the obvious loop: take a screenshot, send the PNG to a vision LLM, ask where to click, click it, repeat. It…
Read →A tiny S3 proxy in front of a pool of Drive accounts
I had ~50 TB of media I wanted to back up off-site. Synology HyperBackup can speak S3. Google Drive Workspace gives you generous per-user storage, but…
Read →Never build new things inside the assistant
I built a small water-tracker for myself: pick a bottle preset, tap a button, get a daily total. First version landed as a few /water/* routes inside the…
Read →Hanging the API at scale: SQLite was the wrong default
A custom backup engine I wrote was happily writing tens of thousands of chunk rows to SQLite. Then I bumped concurrency from two backup jobs to ten, and…
Read →Recovering orphaned jobs after a worker restart
A backup service kept getting into a state where the worker queue showed
Read →A dashboard deadlock from missing per-task timeouts
My homelab home page started returning 504 for its /api/dashboard route. Nothing else was obviously broken. The page just hung.
Read →Why Google Drive eats HyperBackup, and what to do instead
I had 27 TB of stuff on my NAS that I wanted backed up to Google Drive. Synology HyperBackup ran for weeks, made it about a third of the way, and the…
Read →Turning years of screenshots into a searchable journal
I have a Mac screenshots folder with thousands of files. Most of them are chat conversations — iMessage, Signal, Teams, email — captured because I wanted…
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