1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (549+ words) The output side of that machine works. Here is the input side, three weeks in: Every number is from the platform dashboards, pulled by a script. Nothing is rounded up. The runner that launches each unattended command wrote OK to…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago   (474+ words) npm i -D eslint-plugin-import installs 205 packages. That number is true and almost useless, which is the problem with every dependency-weight argument I have read. 69 of those packages are ESLint itself. Since npm 7, peer dependencies install automatically, so any plugin declaring…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (879+ words) I keep a Mac Mini in a closet running a handful of small scheduled Python jobs. One of them scans market data on a schedule and, when its rules fire, places tiny orders through an exchange API. Positions are around…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago   (424+ words) A delivery model that replaces the chain of handoffs: discover once, run design, build and QA in... Tagged with ai, productivity, leadership, softwareengineering....

1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (1632+ words) What Paxos, VR, Zab, and Raft teach us. You may never implement consensus yourself. You still need its mental models to choose databases, coordination services, and infrastructure that fail the way you expect. At 2:13 a.m., your monitoring says the service is…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (352+ words) When we write code, it often feels like the main thing is to make it work locally. But reality is different: the real life of a service begins not on your laptop, but in production. That’s where it faces load,…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1655+ words) Most teams still pick one LLM and send every request to it. That worked in 2023 when there were three viable models. In 2026, with dozens of frontier, mid-tier, and specialist models — each with different pricing, latency, and quality profiles — committing to…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1254+ words) How measuring Kubernetes node storage usage led to a simpler capacity decision in an Amazon EKS cluster. In Engineering Build Notes #1, I investigated what initially looked like an opportunity to reduce worker-node capacity. The nodes appeared to have more capacity…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (905+ words) Last month I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. The single loudest lesson wasn't "AI is amazing" or "AI is useless." It was one sentence: the thing that writes the code can never be the thing that reviews…...

6+ hour ago   (564+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Selvedge, an open-source decision-history tool. This article was prepared with AI assistance from Grok and Codex. The example below is hypothetical and uses plain Markdown; it does not require a particular product. A repository can show what…...