@dineshstack
Senior Full Stack Developer · Building SaaS products & teaching Laravel/React · 10+ years experience · Founder of Orion360 · Based in Dubai, UAE.
Wire Jenkins to a private GitHub repo the least-privilege way: per-repo deploy keys, a read-only fine-grained PAT, a push webhook — and the two credential mistakes that cost me a build each.
Dinesh Wijethunga9 days ago
Put Jenkins on https://jenkins.yourdomain.com with nginx — and learn from the mistake where certbot --nginx edited the wrong vhost and briefly broke TLS on a production wildcard domain.
Dinesh Wijethunga12 days ago
The 2026 guide to installing Jenkins on Ubuntu 24.04 — including the two traps behind "Package 'jenkins' has no installation candidate" and the setup-wizard choices that actually matter.
Dinesh Wijethunga15 days ago
Set up Husky in a Laravel 12 + React repo so Laravel Pint formats every commit automatically and your JS tests gate every push — without ever making developers wait on the full PHP suite.
Dinesh Wijethunga16 days ago
Husky, Jenkins and Ansible solve three different problems. Here's the layered CI/CD architecture I run for a production Laravel SaaS — and why you probably need two of the three, not one.
Dinesh Wijethunga18 days ago
Dinesh Wijethunga20 days ago
A senior engineer's guide to SSH key setup on Mac — with the reasoning behind every step, the gotchas most tutorials skip, and how to fully harden your server against password-based attacks.
Dinesh Wijethunga23 days ago
The honest 6th part: the dead ends, wrong guesses, and walls the polished tutorials skip. A confidently wrong AI diagnosis, a "frozen" terminal that was fine, and a 403 where the data was perfect but the code disagreed — and why the AI's limits turned out to be its safety features.
Dinesh Wijethunga26 days ago
A 502 that was a stopped process. A CORS error that was a permissions bug. An OAuth failure that was a config typo. A 403 that was a one-word mismatch. How Claude AI traced five hidden layers of a broken login — where not one symptom pointed at its own cause.
Dinesh Wijethunga28 days ago
Claude AI as code reviewer and server-prep engineer: building a capistrano-style deployment pipeline with timestamped releases, atomic symlink flips, and one-command rollback. Plus the subtle mistakes an AI reviewer caught before they shipped — missing backups, wrong PHP, supply-chain risks.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 1 month agoA queue is a contract between two processes that never speak. Ours disagreed about which backend they were using, and neither one had any way to notice.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 1 month ago
How Claude AI helped fix world-readable .env files across 20 projects and lock SSH to keys only — including the cloud-init drop-in file that silently overrides your hardening and keeps password login open.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 1 month ago
