A drawer phone replaces a VPS — still behind Cloudflare. Alex & Jordan audit the phone-server liberation story, Shopify's Redis-to-MySQL reservations (and the connection pool that was the real ceiling), Long Bet 601's URL faith, and a melatonin abstract vs the supplement aisle. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-09

In this episode

• My server is a phone now — Termux, root, and a tunnel — independence that still rents the edge.
• Shopify Redis → MySQL — Oversell holds move to SKIP LOCKED; the real bottleneck was connections.
• Long Bet 601 — Haughey's URL survived; link rot still eats the orphans.
• Melatonin abstract — Lo ...