The cron job that had no user
A scheduled job in a multi-tenant NestJS backend kept failing at 2 AM with 'Missing active user in context'. Nobody was logged in, because nobody logs in a cron. Here is the CLS trap and the fix.
The 20,000-line PR that was actually 47 lines: building ClearPR
How one 20,000-line Prettier PR pushed me to build ClearPR, a self-hosted GitHub App that strips formatting noise, reviews against your own rules, and remembers past feedback.
Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service
How a cron-and-restic setup outgrew itself, and the NestJS backup service I built to replace it — with two war stories I didn't see coming.