@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 Wijethungaabout 2 months 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 Wijethungaabout 2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months ago
Dinesh Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga2 months 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 Wijethunga3 months 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 Wijethunga3 months 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 Wijethunga3 months ago
