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185 postsWhy TLS Certificate Trust Isn't Universal on Linux
A breakdown of why TLS certificate trust varies across applications on Linux, covering system trust stores, private CAs, and per-runtime overrides.
17 PRs a Day, One QA: Automating E2E Failure Triage
How pdf.net automated e2e failure triage with a Claude-powered GitHub Action, letting one QA engineer keep pace with 17+ daily merges.
Merging Concurrent Agent Patches by Base Commit, Not Arrival Time
A deterministic merge protocol for concurrent AI coding agent patches, using base commit hashes, diff digests, and hunk ownership instead of arrival time.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comSupabase Queues in Production: DLQs and Retries with pgmq
How to add dead-letter queues, retry limits, and poison message handling to Supabase Queues (pgmq) in production, with working SQL.
WooCommerce Checkout Monitoring: Catching Silent Failures Early
How to detect silent WooCommerce checkout failures — broken payment gateways, order pipeline stalls — before clients notice, using order stats and smoke tests.
How Compiler Explorer's AWS Infrastructure Works in 2026
An inside look at Compiler Explorer's AWS setup: CloudFront, spot instances, EFS/CEFS storage, and its nightly compiler build pipeline.
The physics of Docker build caching: three caches, one wave
A measured breakdown of Docker's three build caches — layer chain, mount cache, image store — and when each caching strategy actually helps.
When Anthropic's Fable Model Vanished, Gene Kim's AI Agents Nearly Broke
A US export order abruptly cut off Anthropic's Fable model mid-session, nearly breaking Gene Kim's personal AI agent system. Here's how he recovered.
30 Days as the Only Human in an AI Dev Team: 212 PRs, Broken CI
A 30-day AI-agent coding experiment shows how self-reported 'green' CI and unreviewed PRs let critical failures hide in plain sight.
Platform Teams Must Now Serve Environments at Agent Speed
Coding agents are turning environment requests into traffic. See why platform teams must shift from provisioning workflows to real serving systems.