Writing
Thoughts on software, technology, and whatever else I find interesting.
Jun 5, 2026 · 7 min
A JWT containing a `sub` claim arrived at the API. The handler read `nameidentifier`. Both fields existed because Microsoft's JWT library silently rewrote the claim names on the way in. This is a story about one default, and the broader bug class it belongs to.
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If you're dispatching multiple autonomous coding agents in parallel, they probably share a working tree. Mine did. Here's the git mess that taught me to use worktree isolation by default.
Read more→Jun 5, 2026 · 9 min
The product belongs on a phone. The store-approval timelines say revenue starts on the web. This is the shape of a release plan that respects both, and the architectural decisions that let them not be in conflict.
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When scope changes, your decisions log is at a fork: edit the original ADR, or add a new one that records what changed and why. Pick the right one and the log stays useful for the next reader.
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How I went from "deployed marketing pages" to "paying users can actually use the product" in 48 hours — and the four bug classes I rediscovered along the way.
Read more→May 31, 2026 · 2 min
GhostCrab is a phone, tablet, and desktop client for OpenClaw Gateway — not a chat app, a configuration and administration client for people who run their own AI infrastructure.
Read more→May 31, 2026 · 3 min
A free, brutally honest AI roast of your resume, website, or dating profile — then a paid resolve report. The architecture behind a low-friction B2C content loop.
Read more→May 31, 2026 · 2 min
A standalone Python microservice that takes a JSON brief and outputs a fully composited, captioned, posted short-form video — built on FastAPI, Celery, MoviePy, and Playwright.
Read more→May 31, 2026 · 3 min
SquareLog turns daily reality into court-ready evidence — a SitRep app, a legal RAG over Connecticut Title 46b, and an AI declaration drafter, with both web and mobile surfaces.
Read more→May 31, 2026 · 3 min
How Stack Alchemist converts a natural-language brief into a fully compilable, deployable codebase — and why a compile loop, not the LLM, is the source of truth.
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