Replacing a Folder of Cron Scripts With n8n: A Practical Walkthrough
How I migrated a pile of brittle Node and Bash scripts to n8n workflows, what I kept, what I threw away, and the gotchas nobody mentions.
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Why I Still Route Some Alerts Through Email (Yes, Email)
Slack is loud. PagerDuty is serious. Email is the boring pipe that quietly outlives every chat app of the year. Here’s when I still reach for it.
My Boring Vercel Deploy Checklist (Copy-Paste Friendly)
The exact things I verify before telling a client a site is live — env vars, redirects, OG images, and the canonical URL that wasn’t.
Structured Logs vs. Print Statements: A Weekend I’ll Never Get Back
One Saturday outage taught me why JSON logs, request IDs, and consistent field names aren’t resume fluff. The before/after, with examples.
The Migration That Was 'Just Adding a Column'
Spoiler: it wasn’t. A Postgres story about locks, bad timing, and the checklist I now run before every DDL change.