Five Deployment Blockers, One Breakthrough: When to Check Memory Before Reaching for New Infrastructure

The Problem I needed to share a dental-billing MCP architecture diagram with stakeholders. Not tomorrow. Now. It was a static HTML file — should be five minutes to get it online. Instead, I hit five sequential blockers. Each one seemed independent. Each one cost time. By the fifth, I was deep in DNS cache debugging, TTY/GPG authentication issues, and wondering if I should just build a new demo subdomain from scratch. The breakthrough? Stop building. The subdomain already existed. Memory had it c