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Every line of the actual $5.96/mo bill that runs the boring-stack production. What each line buys, what it would cost on a platform PaaS, and what it tells you about the architecture. The bill is the blast radius in dollars.
From launch day until 48 hours ago, every newsletter signup on boringstack.org silently failed at the TLS edge. Lower bound: 49 attempts. Ceiling: unknowable. Here's the bug, the blast radius, the 3 PRs we shipped to fix it, and the 3 things we'd do differently.
The full case for SQLite in production: what it actually does well, what WAL mode changes, what Litestream adds, what fails, when to switch to Postgres, and how to migrate when you do.
The Boring Stack in one sitting — what each piece is, why it's there, and what it costs. The mental model you need before you read anything else here.
Most projects do not need a complicated stack on day one. Boring Stack is the public default — philosophy, AI coding skill, templates, and weekly notes.