Development Practices • Sep 21, 2026 Concurrency Control: Your Aggregate Is Single-Threaded. Your Cluster Isn’t. Concurrency control comes in two kinds, and most distributed-systems failures are a misassignment between them.
AI for Developers • Sep 20, 2026 Don’t Stick a Laser In Your Face (A Parable): Power Tools & Ignorance Power tools are dangerous and also incredibly beneficial in specific contexts, similar to the current paradigm of AI use.
AI for Developers • Sep 19, 2026 Debugging in My First Language: A Bilingual Developer’s Accidental Discovery While debugging, my head started to get fuzzy, and I typed, “No entiendo” ("I don’t understand" in Spanish). Codex responded in Spanish too.
Development Practices • Sep 18, 2026 Use Curiosity, Craft, and Care to Decide What AI Should Write While working with a small team during an RDP engagement, I started paying attention to how much authorship we give AI over each artifact.
The Software Life • Sep 17, 2026 Build Trust on a Short Software Project Here's what I learned from being on a short software development project with 3 weeks to produce an ambitious set of goals.
Developer Tools • Sep 16, 2026 Test GitHub Actions Locally with Act I find Nektos repo for act incredibly helpful. Essentially, act is a way to run your GitHub Actions locally using Docker.
AI for Developers • Sep 15, 2026 Your Coding Agent Should be in Jail. Here’s Why and How. The more useful coding agents become, the more I start thinking about what the coding agent can reach. My answer: give Codex its own jail.
Development Practices • Sep 14, 2026 2 Changes Made Our Azure Durable Functions 3X Faster Two changes, 3x faster. The real lesson was that Durable fan-out is a two-part switch that only works when you flip both halves.
AI for Designers • Sep 13, 2026 How I Used a Pinterest Board to Get Better Visual Results From Claude Design How a Pinterest mood board helped me get portfolio designs from Claude Design that actually looked like me, not generic AI output.
The Software Life • Sep 12, 2026 GitHub Alternative List: Quintessential Options Here's the quintessential GitHub alternative list for the quintessential GitHub power user. Nothing can stop your development process.
Developer Tools • Sep 11, 2026 Mixpanel Is Easy to Install. Trusting the Data Takes Work. Mixpanel makes it easy to start collecting events & building dashboards. It's harder to trust those dashboards represent real product usage.
AI for Developers • Sep 10, 2026 How to Move an AI App from a Frontier Model to Open Weights The frontier model’s previous outputs were a useful starting point, but I treated them as suggestions rather than truth.
