Organizing a large media library into meaningful collections is harder than it sounds. With 1000+ movies, you need something smarter than keyword matching. "Star Wars: A New Hope" and "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" share a franchise, but a text search for "Star Wars&
With proper workflows and setup, Claude Code has been amazing for me to get a project 80% complete. Where I have struggled (not just with Claude Code, but in general) is to complete a project. I think I did fairly well with this project: https://github.com/schuettc/plex-collection-creator with
The other day I noticed a post on BlueSky: hailey (@hailey.at)in other news i replaced ohmyzsh today with starship. its quite nice out of the box, though god knows why both the AWS and gcloud plugins are enabled by default lolBluesky Socialhailey I have used ohmyzsh for a
Authentication typically happens in one of two places: the frontend checks if a user is logged in before showing protected UI, and the backend validates tokens before processing requests. There's a third option—verifying JWTs at the edge, in a Cloudflare Worker, before requests reach your backend infrastructure.
API keys for backend authentication create a fundamental challenge in web applications: the credentials need to authenticate requests but cannot be exposed to clients. Hardcoding keys in frontend bundles or environment variables leaves them visible in browser developer tools. Anyone who opens the network tab can extract the key and
When building a React SPA with Cloudflare as the CDN it is possible to use S3 for static asset storage. If you have all of your resources typically on AWS, but want some of the advantages of Cloudflare, you can build a system that is very similar to the traditional
After four months of running a fully self-hosted Ghost CMS on AWS, I made a decision that might seem counterintuitive: I moved to Ghost Pro managed hosting. But here's the thing—I kept all the custom Lambda-powered features I'd built. This post documents that migration and
Preparing for re:Invent 2025 If you've been following this blog, you might have noticed things have been quieter than usual. The technical deep dives, infrastructure walkthroughs, and problem-solving posts have slowed to a trickle. There's a good reason for this temporary silence - I'
Ghost CMS provides excellent newsletter capabilities, but lacks a built-in way to automatically send weekly digest emails summarizing recent posts. Building this feature requires understanding Ghost's Lexical editor format, coordinating between Ghost's Content and Admin APIs, and preventing duplicate sends. The solution uses EventBridge for scheduling,
When we moved our Next.js MDX blog to Ghost on AWS, we needed to preserve Markdown editability in Ghost's editor. Most migration guides convert content to HTML, making it non-editable. Here's the complete migration tool we built to handle MDX files, images, and Ghost'