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Half-baked post pitches. Vote on the ones you'd actually read — I commit to writing the top two. I don't want your data. Just click the buttons. Spam it if you have to.

  • observability for LLM apps without losing your mind

    What traces actually buy you when half your stack is non-deterministic, and the patterns that hold up in production.

  • shipping software with a brain that fights you

    Late-diagnosis ADHD, twenty years of compensating, and the workflows that actually stuck.

  • small multi-agent systems for personal use

    What you can actually build in a weekend with claude code + a few cheap tools. The boring wins matter.

  • platform engineering in the AI era

    How the abstractions we shipped to support microservices break (and adapt) under agent workloads.

  • designing a shadowrun-flavored dev tool

    A design walkthrough of this site — picking a palette, killing generic AI aesthetics, and making something that looks like you mean it.

  • what Philip K. Dick taught me about systems

    Reality is software. Software is reality. A meditation on building things that get further from the metal every year.

  • kill your monitoring, keep your signals

    Most dashboards are noise. A taxonomy of what to delete first, and what to keep no matter how loud it gets.

  • what 30 years of tabletop RPGs taught me about engineering teams

    Rulebooks, session zero, encounter design — the GM playbook maps onto leading engineers better than most management books.

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