Life runs on code.
A 2017 tweet dedupe in five versions, replayed ten calls at once: four tweet ten times, the fifth once, and a ledger row can make the same claim.
Continue reading187 spinner verbs. A thinking indicator nobody specced. Reading Claude Code's source -- and what engineering taste looks like when nobody's watching.
Continue readingWhat 3-6-9 has to say about scaling systems -- and the invariants that hold while the rest moves.
Continue readingThe PII moved into a vault. Every reader that was already there came along, unexamined.
The compiler screened a human's type errors so a human could read the rest. An agent changes who reads - Go's zero values never reached the screen.
Arcanist made intent first-class. Claude Code moved it to the prompt. The developer went from author to auditor - and nothing enforces what I meant to say.
Go spent seven months on dependency cooldown, then put it on hold to try it at the proxy. Nobody had to decide whether it works.
Under set -e a failing check exits before the line that reports it. Thirty of the forty-four in my quality gate can never print FAIL.