Choosing Mongoose over Prisma mid-project, and what it cost
The migration was not about query syntax. It was about what Prisma had been enforcing for free, and about writing each of those guarantees back by hand.
Shipping notes, in public
How we build the thing that publishes your changelog, your blog and your release notes.
MongoDB transactions need a replica set, and localhost was not one
Every transactional path failed against a perfectly healthy local MongoDB. The database was fine. It just was not a replica set, and transactions do not work without one.