My Rust Service's Memory Never Went Down. It Wasn't a Leak.
RSS parked at 77 MB for days with 33 MB of live data. Not a leak: the allocator keeping pages. Two jemalloc decisions got idle RSS down to 33 MB.
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Tool reviews, experiments, and write-ups.
RSS parked at 77 MB for days with 33 MB of live data. Not a leak: the allocator keeping pages. Two jemalloc decisions got idle RSS down to 33 MB.
I placed a ₹159 Zomato order. The payment failed, I hit Retry Payment, and the OTP auto-filled. What arrived was one vada billed at ₹122. The idlis went out of stock between attempts, and the retry silently became a new checkout.
Running a research agent from a VPS means the web fights back — blocked search, garbage extraction, bot detection, datacenter IP bans. Here's the layered stack that handles most cases: SearXNG, Jina AI, CamoFox, and residential proxy as last resort.
A visual breakdown of how thoughts go from my head to the blog — and the automation that holds it together.
I was losing most of what I learned because publishing was too much friction. So I wired an AI agent into my flow — now a thought goes from my head to my blog in one Telegram message.