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  1. 1What Changes When a Personal Site Moves to a €4 Hetzner Box
  2. 2An RSS Feed in the Next.js App Router, in About Twenty Lines
  3. 3Auto-Merge on Green CI: How Much Do You Trust Your Own Pipeline?
  4. 4One Postgres, Two Lives: Neon in Production, Docker in Local Dev
  5. 5The Dollar Sign That Broke My Bcrypt Hash
The Hour That Went Missing Between Two Postgres Clients

28 September 2026

The Hour That Went Missing Between Two Postgres Clients

A batch of scheduled posts looked like it published an hour early — until it became clear the database was right, and only one of the two tools reading it was wrong.

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The Default Value That Passed tsc and Failed the Build

31 August 2026

The Default Value That Passed tsc and Failed the Build

A page component with `= {}` on its props typechecked cleanly and broke `next build` anyway — a class of error the type checker alone will never catch.

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The Dollar Sign That Broke My Bcrypt Hash

28 July 2026

The Dollar Sign That Broke My Bcrypt Hash

A bcrypt hash stored in .env stopped matching after a routine restart. The cause was not the hash — it was Next.js expanding $ as a shell-style variable reference.

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