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Notes & tutorials

Notes on front-end engineering, DevOps, and the small tools I ship on the side.

October 9, 20265 min read

Track App Usage on Windows Privately on Your Own PC

Android has Digital Wellbeing. Windows does not. Here is how I track app usage on Windows locally, and the tracker I shipped in a few spare days.

August 24, 20269 min read

Restore a MongoDB Backup from S3 Before You Need To

Learn how to restore a MongoDB backup from S3 with mongorestore — the exact workflow I run so an untested backup never becomes a very bad day.

February 23, 20265 min read

MongoDB Backup Failure Email Alerts with Amazon SES

Catch silent MongoDB backup failures before they cost you data. Wire Amazon SES into your Ubuntu cron script for instant emails when dumps or S3 uploads fail.

February 23, 20265 min read

Automated MongoDB Backup to AWS S3 on Ubuntu with Cron

Step-by-step guide to scheduling daily MongoDB backups, uploading them to AWS S3, and managing local retention — production-ready and battle-tested.