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Sep 21, 2026I Have Never Done an Open Mic. I Built a Tool for Comedians Anyway.ai Sep 15, 2026P(doom) Is a Distraction, P(oops) Is Tonight: Practical AI Risk for Normal Teamsai Sep 12, 2026Your Eval Set Is Lying to You: Data Leakage in Small Fine-Tunesai Sep 9, 2026Two Leaders Walk Into a Cluster: My First Real Split-Brainsystems Sep 6, 2026Observability Isn't Three Pillars, It's One Question: What Changedsystems Sep 2, 2026Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection and We're Repeating 2005security Aug 30, 2026Sagas vs Two-Phase Commit: Pick Your Poison for Distributed Transactionssystems Aug 26, 2026Quick One: jq Saved My Afternoonsystems Jul 30, 2026Writing a PRD That Engineers Actually Read Past the First Headingproduct Jul 19, 2026Model Cards Nobody Reads and Audit Logs Nobody Checksai Jul 7, 2026Caching Is Easy, Invalidation Is a Careersystems Jul 4, 2026RAG Is Just a Search Problem Wearing a Trench Coatai Jun 30, 2026Database Migrations at 2AM: A Zero-Downtime Playbook Written in Regretsystems Jun 25, 2026I Read Our Dependency Tree So You Don't Have To: A Supply Chain Horror Storysecurity Jun 16, 2026Leader Election Without etcd: How Far Can You Get With Just Postgressystems Jun 7, 2026What Engineers Get Wrong About Talking to Usersproduct Jun 3, 2026CRDTs: The Data Structures That Let You Stop Apologizing for Conflictssystems May 31, 2026Feature Flags Are Distributed Systems Too and Yours Is Probably Brokensystems May 24, 2026The EU AI Act for Engineers Who Just Want to Shipai May 17, 2026Why gRPC Deadlines Are Not Optional and Never Weresystems May 9, 2026The NOTES.md Habitsystems May 6, 2026A Tiny Ode to watch and \watchsystems Mar 29, 2026Backpressure or Bust: What Happens When You Ignore Queue Depthsystems Mar 17, 2026Threat Modeling for People Who Think Threat Modeling Is for Other Peoplesecurity Mar 14, 2026Circuit Breakers: Fail Fast, Recover Faster, Stop Paging Mesystems Mar 5, 2026Saying No as a Product Owner Without Getting Uninvited From Meetingsproduct Feb 23, 2026Rewriting a Legacy Monolith: Strangler Fig or Strangler Fig, Those Are the Optionssystems Feb 11, 2026Idempotency Keys: The 20 Lines of Code That Saved Our Payments Flowsystems Feb 7, 2026Exactly-Once Delivery Is a Bedtime Story We Tell Product Managerssystems Jan 28, 2026Secrets in Env Vars: A Love Story That Ends in a Git Historysecurity Jan 19, 2026Clocks Lie: What NTP Drift Did to Our Idempotency Keyssystems Jan 8, 2026Why Your Retry Logic Is a DDoS Cannon Pointed at Yourselfsystems Jan 3, 2026Estimation Is Fake but Roadmaps Are Real: Living With Bothproduct Dec 21, 2025Your Staging Environment Is Lying to Yousystems Dec 9, 2025The Outbox Pattern: Boring, Ugly, Undefeatedsystems Dec 4, 2025Consistent Hashing Explained With a Momo Shop Analogysystems