https://vit-panchuk.com/ Engineering strategy. Every claim carries where it came from. en https://vit-panchuk.com/reports/solidus/ https://vit-panchuk.com/reports/solidus/ Report Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering strategy audit of Solidus, the Rails commerce framework. An existing-system audit run entirely on public evidence, with a proposed policy register. https://vit-panchuk.com/writing/the-moneypot-nobody-spends-vs-the-work-nobody-does/ https://vit-panchuk.com/writing/the-moneypot-nobody-spends-vs-the-work-nobody-does/ Essay Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Solidus was forked from Spree in 2015. In 2025 Spree came back from the dead with money and AI tooling, so I went to check whether the fork was in trouble. What I found was stranger: a healthy delivery machine, a full treasury, and nobody left whose job it was to decide anything. Then I posted the draft where the project lives — and it answered.