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There’s a question I ask engineers when they hand me an AI generated PR: “walk me through what this does.” If they can, the PR is usually fine. If they can’t, the PR is almost always broken. Not …

Watch a smart, curious person try to learn SQL. They get through SELECT * FROM x WHERE y and they’re fine. Then they hit JOIN, or GROUP BY, or a correlated subquery, and the floor opens up. Most never come back. …

Mitchell Hashimoto wrote a post on X that I haven’t stopped thinking about. It’s frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute “MTTR is all you need” mentality: …

I’ve been running 1:1s for years and I still get them wrong. The version of “wrong” has changed. Early on, my 1:1s were status meetings with the lights off. Manager asks what you’re working on. …

Part 1 was the framework pitch. Part 2 was the agent I wanted to build. This one is for the people who can’t (or won’t) ship that agent to Cloudflare Workers. The reasons vary. Compliance says all customer …

Part 1 was the framework pitch. This is the agent I actually wanted to build with it. The setup is something I keep seeing across teams: JIRA triage is brutal. Tickets pile up in the new-issues queue. An EM or tech lead …

I’ve been on a kick lately, building small agents in TypeScript instead of Python. Two frameworks keep showing up in my browser tabs: Flue and Mastra. They’re both betting on the same thing: TypeScript is the …

Someone needed SFTP access to Azure Blob Storage. Simple enough, right? Azure even has native SFTP support built into storage accounts now. Problem solved. Until you look at the price tag. The Azure SFTP Tax # …