September 2, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
Who Watches the Watchman? Connecting the Homelab to Central Command
Our homelab monitors itself, but what happens when the monitor goes down with it? We built an external heartbeat to find out.
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Technical insights, QA strategies, and stories from the field.
July 20, 2026 · 8 min read · Technical
Wiring Sentry Into a Finance App Without Leaking the Money
Adding error and performance monitoring to Tally & Trace — off by default, PII scrubbed on both surfaces, and Session Replay deliberately left switched off. It's live and reporting, but there's no war story yet: the interesting part is the config, not the outcome.
Read more →July 19, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
Which Account Comes Up Short: Per-Account Solvency in Tally & Trace
The cash-flow timeline used to pool every account into one balance. Now it routes each bill primary→overflow and tells you exactly which account can't cover what — plus credit-card statement modelling, hardened auth, and what's coming next.
Read more →July 13, 2026 · 10 min read · Technical
The Month-End Total Lied: Modeling Cash-Flow Timing in Tally & Trace
Our budget app faithfully computed a reassuring month-end total — and was blind to the mid-month moment where the bills come due before payday. Here's how we reworked the forecast engine to model the one number the spreadsheet actually existed to compute.
Read more →June 13, 2026 · 9 min read · Technical
Carrying the Hardening Over: Security Pass on Central Command
The same security goals as the portfolio pass — dependency hygiene, security headers, a CSP, and abuse protection on public endpoints — re-derived for a Cloudflare-native stack. KV instead of Upstash, no honeypot, and an HSTS gate that hostname detection couldn't solve.
Read more →June 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Technical
Hardening Our Own Front Door: Security Pass on the StudioSC Portfolio
Closing out Dependabot alerts, adding security headers and a CSP, and putting rate limiting + a honeypot in front of our contact form — durable rate limiting via Upstash Redis.
Read more →June 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
QA Verified: Closing Out the Test Suite on Our Own Portfolio
How we got the StudioSC portfolio site to QA Verified — fixing a drifted Playwright suite, tightening locators, and getting all 40 tests green across five browsers.
Read more →June 10, 2026 · 6 min read · Technical
Central Command: A Cloudflare-Native Personal Performance Dashboard
Unifying calendar, weather, fitness, sleep, and more into one edge-deployed dashboard — built entirely on the Cloudflare developer platform, on free tiers.
Read more →February 24, 2026 · 5 min read · Technical
TallyAndTrace: A Full-Stack Financial Management Solution
Building a type-safe monorepo for personal and business financial tracking to replace our aging Google Sheets
Read more →February 18, 2026 · 4 min read · Technical
Building the StudioSC Portfolio Site
A modern Next.js portfolio showcasing our duo approach to software development and quality assurance
Read more →February 15, 2026 · 1 min read · Non-Technical
Our First Marathon Experience
A personal journey of training, perseverance, and crossing the finish line
Read more →January 15, 2024 · 1 min read · Non-Technical
Welcome to StudioSC
Our first blog post introducing StudioSC and our mission
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