From RTMP and Batch Files to HLS: Rebuilding a Video Pipeline Three Times
A video pipeline rebuilt three times: ffmpeg batch files and RTMP, custom HLS from 2016, and AWS-managed transcoding around 2022.
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Ideas on Agentic AI & Growth
Playbooks, product updates, and hands-on lessons from building autonomous AI agents and growth automation.
Thirteen MLS Boards, Three Transports: Building a Listing-Data Layer That Fed a Media Business
Thirteen MLS boards over FTP, RETS, and RESO, mirrored into local databases and turned into tours, microsites, and zero-dollar orders.
Keeping Long-Running Work Alive on a Web Tier: Cron-by-HTTP, Advisory Locks, and a Query Killer
Cron-by-HTTP, database-as-queue, an advisory lock with a self-destruct timer, and a query killer: how long-running work survived on a Windows web tier.
Seven Networks, Three Eras of Auth: Living With Other People's APIs
Seven networks, three eras of authentication: what Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, and Instagram each forced, and how the platforms changed underneath.
Social Compass: Anatomy of a Multi-Tenant Social Scheduler
The Social Compass scheduling loop, its baseline content recommender, and the branded-redirect feature that made it different from other social tools.
The Tour Factory: Photo Processing, Zip Delivery, and an S3 Migration Done While the Site Stayed Up
How a real estate media platform turned uploaded photos into web-ready sizes, queued zip downloads on a dedicated worker, and moved to S3 without taking the site down.
Resurrecting a 15-Year-Old Platform with Cursor: Ten Days, 49 Commits, and What AI Was (and Wasn't) Good For
Ten days, 49 commits, and a 15-year-old Windows platform running on Ubuntu: what the migration involved and where AI-assisted development helped.
15 Years, One Codebase: A Forensic Map of Spotlight Home Tours and Social Compass
A forensic map of fifteen years at Spotlight Home Tours: the business, the five architectural eras, and how a history was reconstructed from code when no commit log existed.
How These Posts Were Written — and How You Can Verify Them
A straight account of my research process for this series: real git history, how I verify claims, a mistake the process caught and fixed, and exactly how you can check my work against my own public GitHub.