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Thoughts on software, technology, and whatever else I find interesting.
Jun 5, 2026 · 9 min
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.
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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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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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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.
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A proof of concept that embeds one NativeAOT .NET 10 shared library directly inside native iOS and Android apps, reached three ways — in-process FFI, a loopback HTTP server, and an encrypted SQLCipher store — with their costs charted side by side. Here's what it does, and why the missing ASP.NET Core mobile runtime pack and SQLite's missing iOS native library dictated every design choice.
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Your GitHub Actions workflow can send the SSM command and still not be able to read its result. The role that calls SendCommand and the role that calls GetCommandInvocation are conceptually the same thing — but AWS doesn't think so, and your "successful" deploy will hang waiting for a status it can't fetch.
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.
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 · 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.
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