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Post-Mortem

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Sep 17, 2026 | Post-Mortem |3 min read

The Database Emptied Itself Twice: Forensics on Shared Credentials and Truncate-Capable Scripts

Twice in 2026 the TweakDeals database was emptied from under the site — in August, 2,544 products at 10:32 UTC were zero by 11:05. Forensics, guards, and the prebuild cache that saved the site.

Aug 18, 2026 | Security |9 min read

The CSP Outage I Caused Myself: Placeholder Nonces, strict-dynamic, and Prebuilt Headers

A placeholder nonce that shipped to production took this site down for 41 minutes. Here is the exact failure, why static headers cannot emulate per-request nonces, and the three fixes that made the site both faster and actually secure.