DSPy + OpenRouter: Why the Standard Integration Falls Short (And How to Fix It)

July 8, 2025 • 4 min read

The standard DSPy OpenRouter integration lacks failover and proper app attribution. Here's how to fix it with custom headers to get automatic model failover and your own app name on OpenRouter leaderboards.

On Going Legit on Twitter/X (Or: How I Learned to Stop Scraping and Love the Rate Limit)

A three-day journey through Twitter API v2, v1.1, OAuth, rate limits, and the gradual acceptance that you can't actually hack your way around free-tier constraints

November 10, 2025

LLMs Love Markdown. CMSs Love Databases. I Built a WordPress Bridge Nobody Should Need.

A technical post-mortem on why WordPress's REST API is theoretically elegant but practically unusable for CI/CD, how SiteGround's security theater blocks legitimate automation, and why SSH + WP-CLI is the uncomfortable truth about 'modern' CMS workflows.

November 7, 2025

The Daily Hexagram: A Journey from Complexity to Simplicity

How we learned to stop worrying and love the binary calendar. On deleting databases, removing cron jobs, and discovering that the oracle was encoded in the date all along.

October 28, 2025