Your AI Reviewer Takes Orders From Strangers. That Is the New Arena.
Eighteen months ago the comment thread was the territory. Now it is the prompt - and the prompt is written by whoever opened the pull request.
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Code Review Used to Be a Power Game. AI Ended It. Nobody Noticed.
For years, the pull request was as much about politics as correctness. Something quietly changed - and we should ask what it cost.
AirPrint on Any Linux NAS: The Universal Setup
A GitHub Action that automerges maintenance bot PRs safely
I built a small GitHub Action for automerging maintenance bot PRs from Dependabot, Snyk, Renovate, etc.
7 Things Kitty Can Do That Will Make You Forget iTerm2 Existed
Inline images, AI-powered commands, live theme switching, and more — all built in or under 20 lines of Python.
Your Terminal Is an AI Workspace Now
After 10 years on iTerm2, I had Claude Code migrate me to Kitty in under 10 minutes of AI execution time.
Your Prompts Don't Have Tests. That's a Problem.
Once LLM systems move from prototype to production, a specific failure mode kicks in. Prompts drift - not dramatically, but incrementally. Someone adjusts wording. Someone switches the model. Someone adds a paragraph of context. Each change seems fine on its own. Nobody measures the cumulative effect.
I built a Cursor Skill that ships code
How I built a Cursor 2.4 skill with subagents that generates full-stack Next.js apps from simple prompts. No clarifying questions, just working code.
33 Million Accounts Exposed: What the Condé Nast Breach Teaches Engineering Leaders
The Christmas 2025 Condé Nast breach wasn't sophisticated. It was preventable. And the organizational failures that followed the initial compromise made everything worse.
When Someone Dismisses Your Work. Why You Should Keep Building Anyway
Ignoring the noise and staying focused on the craft of building.
From Idea to Impact: Applying the "RADIO-AI" Pattern for Effortless AI Agent MVPs
What if building a powerful, smart AI feature for your app or business could be as intuitive as following a simple checklist?
How Distributed Systems Really Talk: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and tRPC in Practice
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC are not just protocol choices. They are political choices between teams. Here is when each one works best, and when it will fight you.
Consistency Models: Why Your Database Lies to You (And When That’s Fine)
How Amazon's haunted shopping cart bug taught us that 'eventually consistent' isn't broken—it's a feature
What I Learned From 60 Days of Brutal Honesty in My Work Journal
How tracking energy, mistakes, and meetings transformed my performance in 8 weeks
CAP Theorem: What Senior Engineers Actually Need to Know
Why GitHub chose to freeze for 5 hours instead of serving stale data