The 99 Access Points That Didn't Exist
An inventory report swore a site had 99 access points; the ceiling said twelve, and the database had been lying the whole time.
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The Smart Blind That Took Down an Entire Network
A $30 Wi-Fi window blind decided it was the default gateway, and the whole site went dark whenever it felt like it.
The Deploy Script That Ate the Production Database
A homegrown deploy script copied the whole app folder to prod — database file and all — and quietly overwrote live data with an empty local copy.
I Found a Secret in a Git Repo (It Was Mine)
I went looking for a leaked credential in a client’s stack and found one staring back at me — committed by my own hand, baked into history forever.
90s Kid - The Day We Got 56k
The afternoon the modem screamed a little faster and the whole house held its breath.
The PWA That Froze When Offline
A field tech opened an ‘offline-capable’ app in a dead zone and got a blank screen that hung forever — because the service worker was politely waiting for a network that was never coming.
The API Loop That Ran Up the Bill Overnight
An unattended automation found a paid LLM endpoint, lost its mind, and hammered it thousands of times while everyone slept.
One Caddyfile, Infinite Subdomains
A dozen self-hosted apps, a dozen ugly ports, zero valid certs — until one wildcard cert turned ’expose another app’ into a three-line chore.
90s Kid - The Dot-Matrix Printer
The screaming beige monster that printed your book report one agonizing dot at a time, and the perforated paper-strips you weren’t allowed to tear off too early.
The Subdomain That Pointed at Nothing
A routine DNS audit turned up subdomains aimed at servers that died months ago — quiet little doors anyone could walk through.