Systems & Engineering
Technical articles, field notes, and systems troubleshooting filed under Systems & Engineering.
Why I Built Syndicator: Automating Blog Distribution Across X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr on a $0 Cloudflare Worker
How I built Syndicator—an open-source, $0/month Cloudflare Worker and KV service that automatically syndicates RSS blog posts across X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Meta Threads, and Nostr with algorithmic link routing and a 3-character URL shortener.
Building AgentPulse - A Windows 11 Widget for Antigravity Quotas
Building AgentPulse in C# / .NET 11 and WinUI 3 to display Google Antigravity model quotas across the Lock Screen, Windows Widgets, and System Tray.
Building Lucky - Why All My Assumptions Were Wrong
What happened when bot engineering met salon reality: killing NLP parsing for a Mini App calendar, dealing with Google Calendar reversion, and hitting the 24h Business API wall.
Building a Custom Pedicure Dust Collector
Engineering a custom salon dust collector from scratch: the fluid dynamics of axial vs turbine vs centrifugal blowers across three hands-on iterations.
Flutter WSL Symlink Hack
Bypassing the CMD.exe UNC path error when building Windows Flutter apps from a WSL filesystem using directory symlinks.
Memories from MZTA: The 30-Year Legacy Bug and the $1/KB Data Extortion
Two field diagnostics from a regional power plant deployment: predatory M2M cellular data throttling and a 30-year-old multi-homed UDP routing bug buried in legacy code.
Field Notes: Why I Build Defensive Flutter Widgets
Flutter's fail-fast layout philosophy crashes the entire app on unbounded constraints. Why I build defensive wrappers like ez_list_view that prioritize visual clues over red screens of death.
Stop Overcomplicating Simple Things
Building EZ QR Generator with Hono, HTMX, and hand-crafted PNG binary chunks to challenge predatory micro-SaaS bloat.
How I Built an Invisible Telegram CRM
Building a zero-cost, automated booking and client CRM directly inside Telegram for a nail studio using Cloudflare Workers, D1 SQLite, and KV.