Writing about engineering systems, AI-assisted development, infrastructure, and the human side of building technology.
One channel's Claude in Slack session pinned a six-day-old connector config and silently ignored every change after it. Removing and reinstalling the app didn't touch it. The rollout turned into a security rebuild.
Rick Rubin rewrote the Tao Te Ching as vibe-coding aphorisms. Some of it maps cleanly to how I build. Some of it falls apart the moment a pager goes off.
Anthropic's own engineering lead said Claude Code made her team lonely. We spent two years measuring what agents do to velocity and cost, and nobody costed out what they do to the room.
My annual Copilot Pro+ subscription ended right as GitHub switched from Premium Request Units to usage-based AI Credits. GitHub's own preview repriced my April from $147.38 to $1,297.49.
Over ten years, my projects kept turning into the same backend, infrastructure, tenancy, auth, deployment, and validation. I stopped treating those as fresh decisions for every product and pulled them into one reusable system.
A normal parcel-status search found an old CourierPost interface. The risk was not one page, but what Google made discoverable.
AI does not need to fool everyone. It only needs to create enough doubt that people stop trusting their own perception.
Renamed a GitHub repo. Pushed multiple commits. Nothing deployed. No errors anywhere. Turns out CodeBuild doesn't follow GitHub's repo redirects, and the webhook linkage breaks without telling you.
Google Analytics tracked page views in a product where page views don't matter. I replaced it with internal event tracking and Cloudflare, and finally saw how the system actually behaves.
Most write interfaces are HTTP forms posting JSON. For Lush Aural Treats, submissions enter through email. Here's the architecture behind a tenant-aware ingestion pipeline where the inbox is the API.
I deployed a standard ECS architecture for Lush Aural Treats and didn't watch the bill. NAT gateways and ALBs quietly ate $1,000. Here's how I redesigned the whole thing to cost almost nothing.
Most AI dev content is about vibe coding or tool comparisons. Here's the structured workflow I've been using across real projects, and why it actually works.
The prompts that look the most detailed rarely produce the best music. Music models respond to production primitives like drum patterns, instrumentation, and arrangement structure. Not adjectives.
New AWS accounts get $100 in credits for completing five Explore activities. Four of them can be fully automated with Terraform. Here's how.
Why I ditched Fingertip's no-code website builder and rebuilt jch254.com from scratch with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and GitHub Pages, and why it was worth every line of code.
The people shaping AI don't just think they're building tools. They think they're building gods.
Joey Bada$$'s Dark Aura hits different when you've been through the chaos of tech. The layoffs, the uncertainty, the late-night coding sprints with no safety net.
As generative AI improves, the line between truth and fabrication dissolves. The future isn't just about better tools. It's about living in a world where reality itself is contested.
I paid $400 NZD for a year of Claude Pro. Here's what I got, and why GitHub Copilot is worth every cent.
Since 2021, I've lost two close friends to suicide. This is a reminder that connection is not a luxury. It's survival.
AI coding assistants are changing what it means to be a software engineer. Earlier generations were trained across the full lifecycle.
No shit Sherlock... here comes the Great 2025-26 Software Security Lapse affecting anything and everything that is powered by software from the vibers.
A reflection on how workplaces and professional platforms respond when someone is in crisis, and why honest expression shouldn't be treated as a policy breach.
Two weeks after a minor crash on black ice that left me with a fractured metacarpal, I was on my way to an orthopaedic follow-up when things got... interesting.
For the better part of a decade, I was prescribed more than 100mg of morphine-equivalent opioid medication every day. All doctor's orders.
Rappers have been documenting the economic determinants of crime for decades. The data backs them up.
Ab-Soul on survival, vulnerability, and second chances after jumping off a freeway overpass.
This morning I read some shocking statistics straight from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)'s website.
OpenAI's leadership exodus, corporate loyalty, and why companies are absolutely nothing without the people that built them.
As mentioned by many news sources around the globe - Telegram will better cooperate with law enforcement agencies and hand over user data.
An amazing watch about chronic pain, the western medical system, and finding clarity outside of it.