kubernetes, CI/CD, deploy
You pushed. The pods didn't pull.
The deploy said success. Production ran old code for forty minutes. The same-tag push is the most boring outage generator in Kubernetes — here's the prompt that catches it.
Read →Engineering Notes
Build logs and field reports from the xentropy fleet — infrastructure, AI, and the systems behind the products.
debugging, AI prompts, production
The bug that wasn't a bug
The crash log pointed at our code. The real culprit was a rate limit wearing a stack trace as a disguise. Here's the prompt we now run before trusting any error message.
Read →PKM, knowledge tools, AI
The one thing every knowledge tool gets wrong
Your notes apps are museums. They organize what you already captured — but none of them think about your future.
Read →k3s, infrastructure, cost
Running production on a single k3s node
Notes on moving the xentropy stack off managed Kubernetes and onto a lean, self-hosted k3s cluster — and what we'd do differently.
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