#the-m-akita-chronicles
10 posts
2026 - February
10 posts- From Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- Integration Tests in a Monorepo | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- SQLite + Kamal: Rails Deploy Without Drama | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- Discord as an Admin Panel | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- Async Jobs That Survive Chaos | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
- Frontend Without a Framework | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
- Serving AI in the Cloud: My Personal TTS | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
- Web Scraping in 2026 | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
- Sending Emails Without Getting Flagged as Spam | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
- Vibe Code: From Zero to Production in 6 DAYS | The M.Akita Chronicles
2026 - February
10 postsFrom Zero to Post-Production in 1 Week - How to Use AI on Real Projects | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How 274 commits in 8 days shipped a full newsletter, podcast, blog, and Discord bot to production using Extreme Programming with Claude Code as the pair.
Integration Tests in a Monorepo | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How a monorepo running three apps that share a filesystem uses a dedicated integration environment, DevCache, rsynced production data, and preflight checks to catch the bugs unit tests never see.
SQLite + Kamal: Rails Deploy Without Drama | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How Rails 8 with SQLite and Kamal lets you run a full production app on a $12/month VPS with zero external services.
Discord as an Admin Panel | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How I replaced the classic Rails admin panel with a Discord bot: parser/dispatcher patterns, embeds, reactions, tool-calling LLMs, and the lessons from failing silently in production.
Async Jobs That Survive Chaos | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
Production-grade patterns for Rails 8 ActiveJob and SolidQueue: retries, distributed locks, atomic email claiming, orchestrators, cron safety nets, and status notifications.
Frontend Without a Framework | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
How I built a modern, responsive, dark-mode, email-compatible, multi-platform frontend for The M.Akita Chronicles without a single line of JavaScript framework.
Serving AI in the Cloud: My Personal TTS | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
Behind the scenes of putting Qwen3-TTS in production on a serverless GPU to auto-generate a weekly podcast: cold starts, voice cloning, sampling, loudness, and prompt engineering.
Web Scraping in 2026 | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
How I went from a four-line HTTP GET to packing a full Chromium into Docker just to read the news for my newsletter in 2026.
Sending Emails Without Getting Flagged as Spam | Behind The M.Akita Chronicles
How to build a reliable newsletter sending pipeline on Amazon SES, covering atomic claiming, terminal states, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, List-Unsubscribe and the silent SES suppression list.
Vibe Code: From Zero to Production in 6 DAYS | The M.Akita Chronicles
How I shipped a full newsletter, blog, podcast, and Discord bot to production in six days using vibe coding the right way.