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Bugs I hit, how I found them, and what fixed them.

Firmware3 min read

When an SD card quietly corrupts your RFID reads

The SD card and the RFID reader shared one SPI bus, and the SD card's chip-select line left MISO asserted. Here's how I tracked it down.

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Firmware2 min read

Why my ESP32 kept rebooting: blocking sounds and the task watchdog

Back-to-back blocking buzzer and LED patterns starved the ESP32's task watchdog. A few yield() calls fixed it.

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Backend3 min read

Stray hex numbers in my JSON: chunked transfer encoding

Google Apps Script responses arrived chunked, and the chunk-size markers leaked into the JSON the ESP32 was parsing.

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Lejel Matienzo

Backend developer with mid-level frontend skills, building reliable systems and the interfaces that connect to them.

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