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ISSUE #1 SEP 2026 $4.95santiagOS POWERAgent READY, Usage 0%: When the Wiring Lies
An orchestration incident where every status light was green and zero tokens had moved. Separating wiring, dispatch, and substantive inference is what made the pipeline verifiable.
- ISSUE #2 SEP 2026 $4.95santiagOS POWER
Stop on the First Schema Error: Why Halting Beats Retrying in LLM Orchestration
When an orchestrated LLM returns invalid JSON or an invalid schema, the strongest move is to halt the unit of work. A documented incident on why auto-retry hides causes and burns budget.
ISSUE #3 MAY 2026 $4.95santiagOS POWERStatic-First Portfolio Architecture with Astro 7
How this bilingual portfolio uses Astro 7 Content Collections, versioned evidence, and focused Svelte islands without a runtime database.
ISSUE #4 SEP 2024 $4.95santiagOS POWERSelf-Taught to Senior Engineer: Building a Software Career Without a Degree
From dropping out of a Mexican polytechnic at 16 to landing a full-stack engineering role at an international company. No degree. No shortcuts. The actual path.
- ISSUE #5 AUG 2024 $4.95santiagOS POWER
Astro i18n Islands: Passing Locale Across the Client Boundary
A historical i18n bug led this portfolio to pass locale from Astro into Svelte instead of reading browser state during component initialization.
ISSUE #6 AUG 2024 $4.95santiagOS POWERAstro Islands in Practice: Static HTML with Focused Svelte Interactions
How this portfolio uses Astro for static structure and Svelte only where interaction, persistence, or local state requires hydration.
