Pillar: Production AI Pipelines

Selling knowledge online usually means renting three businesses from three vendors: a storefront, a learning platform, and — increasingly — an AI that reads your own course material back to you off someone else’s server, metered by the token. I went the other way on the two that matter. The shopfront out front can be […]

The Sim Studio Integration Failure: a Post-Mortem Not every integration story ends with a working system. This one ends with a decision to remove the integration entirely — and that decision was the right call. The post-mortem is worth writing because knowing when not to add complexity is a more valuable skill than knowing how […]

Fixing Postiz on Docker (Setup + the X Media-Upload Bug) Postiz is a self-hosted social media scheduler with a clean UI and decent multi-platform support. Getting it running on Docker is straightforward once you know the environment variable gotchas. Getting it to successfully upload media to X (formerly Twitter) requires a second round of debugging […]

A Dockerized Remotion Render Pipeline Remotion is a React-based video renderer that produces MP4s from JSX. It works beautifully on a developer’s machine and falls apart the moment you try to run it in CI or hand it off to a server. The problem is Chromium: Remotion uses headless Chrome for rendering and Chrome has […]

5 containerized WordPress sites behind Caddy + Cloudflare.