AI in Action

There’s a special kind of person who talks to themselves while migrating servers. I am that person. This post is basically the black-box recording of me moving two hobby projects-an auth service and an expense tracker called Pennywise-off Hetzner and onto Contabo, while Coolify, Cloudflare, R2, Postgres, and one very stupid vault mistake all tried to teach me humility. If you’re here for a clean architecture diagram and zero drama: leave now. This is the other kind of migration story. ...

So here is the situation. I needed ₹1,08,000. Not for anything exciting. Just one of those weeks where life sends you a bill and waits patiently at the door while you figure out where the money is coming from. I had ETFs. A bunch of them. Some gold, some liquid, sitting there quietly compounding while I ignored them. Two of them were small and easy decisions. Sell completely, move on. But that still left a gap of about ₹34,000. ...

I got a new car shed allotment near my home: eight slots, one entry, pick one. Permanent ownership, no rotation. A decision you make once and live with for years. Most people walk in, eyeball it, pick whichever feels right. I almost did the same. Then I realized this is a small optimization problem. Reverse-park geometry, exit angles, monsoon wind, daily walk distance, door swing - all knowable, all worth thinking about. ...