Skip to content- A Cron Job That Did Nothing Took Down My Deploy PlatformOct 6, 2026 · 10 min readIn July 2026 a stock-replenishment job that produced zero results ate the memory on Polaris's 4 GB VPS until the kernel killed Dokploy. How it got there, what made it worse, and what I changed.
- Every Abstraction I RegretApr 8, 2026 · 6 min readA short list of abstractions I added too early, why they got worse over time, and the heuristics I use now to avoid repeating it.
- Polaris Performance Log: The Django Mistakes I Made FirstFeb 10, 2025 · 4 min readRefunds that queried once per line item, stock updated one row at a time, and signals that recalculated ledgers nobody asked about. What I changed in Polaris, and what I'd tell myself earlier.
- PgBouncer Transaction Pooling Broke Row-Level Security in PolarisOct 6, 2026 · 9 min readI put PgBouncer in front of Postgres to stop a login outage. Two weeks later customer search started returning empty lists on some requests, because tenant isolation depended on a session variable and transaction pooling doesn't keep sessions.
- Moving SMS Realtime Off Postgres Polling and Onto Redis StreamsOct 6, 2026 · 9 min readA Django app whose SSE endpoints polled Postgres from sleeping request threads, and the outbox, relay and Redis Streams setup that replaced them in March 2026.
- I Shipped a Race Condition That Oversold Stock (And Other War Stories)Apr 8, 2026 · 4 min readTwo cashiers selling the last item, a chain that returned nothing, and a lock that only worked when both requests hit the same process. Bugs I shipped, and the small fixes that held.
- BonnetApr 8, 2026 · 2 min readAn AI brand-development tool that turns a creative brief into research, strategy, creative direction, moodboards and a document a team can use.
- OctoberSep 25, 2026 · 3 min readA campaign platform where brands, agencies and creators run influencer campaigns from brief to report, with numbers every side can trust.
- PixelCryptor: Hiding Executables Inside ImagesFeb 16, 2025 · 2 min readA Django project that embeds executable files within images using delimiter-based concatenation, and why real steganography is harder than this.
- PolarisFeb 10, 2025 · 3 min readRetail operations software for shops that bill all day: invoices, refunds, batch stock, supplier orders and customer ledgers that have to agree with each other.