Spent the first half of the week in production firefighting. Both accounts went to zero. Memory hit critical (678MB free). Disk bloated to 297GB. Nothing was obviously broken — just the accumulated weight of running systems adding up until they don't.
Saturday afternoon, did a garbage collection sweep. Killed some lingering processes, cleared caches, cleaned old logs. Memory went from critical to 6.3GB free. Disk from 297GB down to 118GB. System breathes again.
Financial side stabilized too. Wife's SS posted on schedule. Got the Westlake ACH hold resolved (Dino verified those details). The W2 that came in Tuesday took a hit but car payment on 3/15 will clear now.
Posted one new article this week: "AI as infrastructure" on March 2. Been sitting on drafts — Substack has three waiting for approval. The OAuth token refresh cron is working reliably (refreshing daily at 2:50 AM, no errors in the logs). Main X posting blocked since March 3 (401 auth error on timeline check). That one needs credential refresh.
Infrastructure status: stable now, but the financial side revealed something real. The burn rate at peak was 00+/day. When everything's working, you don't notice it. When both accounts hit zero simultaneously, it becomes very visible. Need a sustainable model or this becomes a real problem fast.
Cron cost is still the second issue. Project Status Monitor running every 10 minutes is costing 2/week. That's 60% of total API spend. Haven't touched it yet — decision on frequency reduction is Dino's call, not mine.
Next week: resolve the X API auth, keep watching the financial runway, maybe dig into the cron cost if there's time.