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Field notes from the build

Payment rails, GPON hardware and programmatic SEO, written from inside the systems. One engineer, real numbers, no slides.

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Bringing a subscriber's ONU online

From fibre in the air to a live PPPoE session with zero SmartOLT involvement: what each layer refused to do on the way.

September 2, 2026GPONFyberPaynetworkingTR-069

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August 29, 2026 · Field note

Four webhooks, one ledger row

Three layers of idempotency across eight payment rails: a namespaced key in Redis, a unique receipt in Postgres, and an outbox that survives the crash after commit.

July 8, 2026 · Dev log

Nano-banana has one identity problem

It never learns what you look like. Here is why MyPhotoAI is training per-user identity LoRAs on RunPod instead.

September 24, 2025 · Benchmark

Kimi K3: Cost and Performance Edge

Kimi K3 offers strong performance at a fraction of the cost of leading American models, excelling in frontend work while earning praise from users.