📰 Dev.to · Vineeth N Krishnan

I wanted a small army of agents running 24x7 and a place to host all my homelab apps. The Pi was never going to do it. A colleague handed me his 2018 Mac mini a

The old stash, checkout, hotfix, rebase, pop routine is a quiet war crime against your evening. One git worktree later, hotfixes stopped scaring me, and AI agen

Homelab box said 100 percent full, du said half the disk was free. Docker was holding open a log file I had rm'd months ago. lsof +L1 untangles the knot.

A quiet protocol shift is happening in AI tooling. Most devs missed it. Why MCP matters, the high-profile breaches that should have your attention, and the rubr

An internal app deploy kept importing an old Vite plugin export. The lockfile was right, the build was wrong. The culprit was older than the bug.

A failing nightly backup, a sed hotfix that worked once, and the next morning's cron that failed anyway. Node's require cache had eaten my patch.

I figured cross-posting my Astro blog to dev.to and Hashnode would take an afternoon. It turned into four PRs, three failure modes, and a few API surprises.

The docs existed. The CI/CD was already automated. And yet I was still getting pinged before every deployment. Honest field notes on why a per-repo wiki finally

Why our team's debate about appending digits to Docker ports ended in a 16-bit explosion, and how prepending saved the day.

A self-hosted Sentry instance, 2.5 years behind, 0 bytes of swap free, 4 mandatory version hops, 78 containers, and one afternoon where I learned that enabling

A practical walkthrough for self-hosting an S3-compatible CDN with MinIO, Docker Compose, and Nginx - including the small config bits everyone seems to miss unt

A 2005 wedding video, an 8 GB .VOB file, a family WhatsApp group with unreasonable faith, a small privacy grudge against Google, and the weekend Python CLI that

I saw Apple's iPhone page in 2016, thought 'I can build that in jQuery,' and somehow I'm still maintaining it in 2026. Zero stars. Zero regrets.

I built two disk cleanup CLIs — one in Rust with a TUI, one in Go with risk scoring. Here's what each language and design taught me that the other couldn't.

A short story about running out of server space because of academy videos, and the shell tool I wrote so I'd never hear 'Vineeth, we can't upload anymore' again

How a single Stripe MCP server turned into a monorepo of eleven, and why half the engineering effort went into not writing the same OAuth flow six times.

Why I wrapped docling into a full Docker Compose setup with FastAPI, Celery, and nginx — so our AI project could stop worrying about messy PDFs, Word files, and

Five AI coding agents, five incompatible session formats, one terminal UI to browse them all — and the reverse-engineering it took to get there.

It was supposed to be a weekend CLI. Then the name got stolen, the providers started disagreeing with each other, the rate limits hit back, and somewhere along