Boring Stack Weekly.

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  1. The cloud bill is an architecture review May 30, 2026 · issue #5

    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.

  2. What broke in launch week May 19, 2026 · issue #4

    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.

  3. SQLite is a database. Stop apologizing. May 12, 2026 · issue #3

    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.

  4. One VPS, one binary, one database May 5, 2026 · issue #2

    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.

  5. Why this exists May 2, 2026 · issue #1

    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.