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Engineering5 min read
When Your AI Co-pilot Breaks the Build: Guardrails for Automated Code Fixes
Our CI was failing with 12 TypeScript errors. GitHub Copilot opened a PR to fix them. The PR introduced a syntax error that was worse than the original problem. Here's what we learned about trusting AI-generated fixes — and the verification layer that catches them.

Engineering6 min read
Self-Healing CI: Building Hooks That Fix Your Pipeline Before You Notice It's Broken
What if your CI pipeline could detect merge conflicts before you start coding, auto-fix common TypeScript errors, and verify deployments succeed — all without human intervention? We built exactly that with a hook-based extension system.

Engineering5 min read
The Readonly Trap: Why TypeScript Strict Mode Hates Your Tests
You wrote 463 unit tests. They all pass. Then TypeScript strict mode tells you process.env.NODE_ENV is read-only and your entire CI pipeline goes red. Here's why it happens and the one-line pattern that fixes it for good.

Engineering5 min read
Fire-and-Forget Is a Lie: Why Your Async Jobs Need a Persistence Safety Net
Your async server function runs to completion, broadcasts results via WebSocket, and... nobody is listening. The user closed the tab. All that AI generation work? Gone. Here's why fire-and-forget needs a persistence safety net.

Engineering5 min read
The Video That Wasn't There: A Cautionary Tale About API Race Conditions
When LinkedIn says your video post is published but visitors see "post not found" — you've hit a classic async processing race condition. Here's the pattern, the fix, and the architectural lesson.

Engineering5 min read
Your Database's Secret Identity Crisis: Secrets for Cron Jobs on Managed Postgres
You write ALTER DATABASE SET, Postgres says 'permission denied', and your cron jobs keep failing at 3am. Welcome to secrets management on managed databases — where the obvious solution doesn't work and the correct one isn't documented.

Product6 min read
Meet ArchyPress MCP: AI-Driven Publishing From Your Code Editor
ArchyPress now ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents draft, compose, illustrate, and publish blog posts and website pages — all from inside your IDE. Here's how it works and why it changes the publishing game.

Engineering4 min read
Reliable Multi-Network Publishing: How ArchySocial Handles OAuth, Queues, and Delivery
Learn how ArchySocial approaches reliable social publishing with OAuth flows, scheduled queues, delivery states, and operational safeguards.

Engineering4 min read
Building an AI Content Pipeline with Guardrails in ArchySocial
A practical look at how ArchySocial structures AI caption, hashtag, image, and video generation with validation, rate limits, and human approval checkpoints.