BullMQ

Jan 2024 - Present · 1 project

Jul 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 project

Should you delete a feature stuck in platform review? I deleted ~38k lines, restored it 4 days later

The code was done; launch waited on three platforms' review queues. I deleted 37,990 lines, then restored the feature four days later.

Aug 2026 · 9 min

Why my LLM verification gate passed an empty {} reply — failing open in JSON mode

My vision-model gate read each answer as parsed.x === true, so an empty {} reply counted as a pass. How it failed open, and why the feature died anyway.

Aug 2026 · 8 min

Why BullMQ throws 'Custom Id cannot contain :' — and 1,034 green tests missed it

BullMQ refuses a custom job id with a colon. Four of my five id builders used one, and 1,034 green tests spied on queue.add and never noticed.

Aug 2026 · 8 min

Why does an LLM API call return an empty string? Reasoning tokens count against max_tokens

Every AI caption call 500'd in production: a reasoning model spent max_tokens thinking, finish_reason was 'length', and my client returned ''.

Aug 2026 · 8 min

Most of my automation is failure handling

A third of my n8n video pipeline — 13 of 40 nodes — exists only for failure: retries, error writes, cleanup. The happy path was the easy part.

Aug 2026 · 6 min

Why our social publisher reported success for posts that never went out

Before it ever touched a platform, our social publisher could go green for posts sent private, wrong or not at all. What we fixed, and what it cost.

Aug 2026 · 8 min

We replaced a NATS message bus with plain HTTP calls

Why 15+ NestJS services dropped a NATS bus for direct HTTP on the internal request path, and what a message bus really charges you.

Oct 2025 · 5 min

Server-Sent Events for realtime game rooms — why not WebSockets

Why I streamed poker room state over Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets: one-way push, reconnects for free, and the costs I accepted.

Jun 2025 · 5 min