The internet is littered with examples of Agents getting things wrong. I've had some of those same experiences, mostly variants of ignoring instructions. Occasionally I get a fun one like this. …

It's been a fast few. Lots of things have filled the past months, from trips to toiling in the yard. Here we are at the end of another summer. Thankfully I've learned a few things, relearned really - …

Six months ago I would have told you there's a lot of value in crafting a custom harness to drive a reliable development flow. Claude Code was good, but it lacked guardrail loops. If you wanted …

With the right language, everything is a toy. […] Two conversations I've had in the past week dovetailed perfectly. One focused on the perils of one-shot development, the other on the challenge …

Oh what I would do, if only I knew... […] Logging has been a continuously evolving practice for me. When I started writing code, I leaned heavily into debug/log/assert hack based strategies. I …

I recently came across this rethinking of the Amazon way and this interview where we hear that Spotify is pushing ~4500 production releases a day. Both are worth a dive, but they dance around the …

With one of my side web projects I noticed that it had been months since I'd taken a hard look at the level of accessibility. I'd run a pass using axe-core, and addressed the issues, and then set it …

One of the useless things I spend time on is mtn-aqi.com and a bunch of its siblings. I have a few air quality monitors and I occasionally like to play with the data they collect. The data itself …