I broke staging on a Friday and learned more than in 10 tutorials

I have destroyed more builds than I can count.

Broken deploys. Typos in migrations. One regex took down staging on a Friday.

Every one of them taught me something no tutorial ever did.

Why this site exists

Tutorials show you the happy path. Real work lives everywhere else on the map.

So I do this in public. I build; I break; I document the wreckage. You keep the lessons without paying the debugging bill.

What you'll find here

• Deep dives into real projects; no toy examples
• Field notes straight from production incidents
• Snippets I actually use, ready to copy
• The occasional tooling rant; always justified

Clean commits hide the crime scene. Mine don't.

if (this.post.savesYouAnHour() || this.post.savesYouFromABadDecision()) {
  mission = true;
}

The deal

I write like I talk: direct, technical, zero filler.

If a post saves you an hour, or saves you from a bad call, it did its job.

From here

New posts land when they're ready. No calendar; no padding.

Subscribe if you want the wreckage in your inbox. Or just lurk; lurkers are welcome.