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203 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.
Unfinished Work in Package Security: Gaps Between Controls
Nx, Ledger, and tj-actions incidents expose gaps between independent package security controls, with lessons for engineering teams.
What an AI-Built User Story Really Costs: A Token-Level Audit
A token-level cost audit of an autonomous Claude Code pipeline reveals cache economics, hidden failure rates, and a ledger bug that hid real spend.
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.