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Dev Log: 2026-07-14

TL;DR Fast-forwarded two Laravel apps off an old in-house skeleton — in layers, not one heroic merge. Added a security-header middleware and a retenti…

The Reconciler Pattern: When a Queued Job Simply Never Runs

TL;DR A job dispatched once , at row-creation time, has a silent failure mode: if that dispatch is lost, the row sits pending forever — and never appe…

The PRNG draw-tape: eager versus lazy

Munchausen makes one absolute promise: same seed, same data, forever, on any machine. A persona is "generated once," which raises a question that soun…

Building a LINE First Fitness Agent with AI Cost Gates

A Polyglot Feedback Platform: Django, Next.js, and Elixir Working Together

Building an AI Accountability Coach That Knows Your Habits

Building a Multi Platform AI Budget Coach

Building a Real Time Sports Scoring Engine with WebSockets and DynamoDB Streams

The Problem Sports scoring sounds simple. One team scores a point, the number goes up, everyone sees it. But when you build it as a web application th…

We hit an at-least-once delivery trap. Here is how we fixed the race conditions.

If you are running an event-driven architecture with message queues like Kafka, you already know the drill, scalability is awesome, but network partit…

The Cohesion Series and IVP — Five Papers Published

The cohesion paper series is now published in full — five papers that build a chain from the concept of cohesion to the Independent Variation Principl…

AI Can Migrate Your COBOL to Java. It Can't Prove It Didn't Break Anything. We Built the Part That Does.

Every bank, insurer, and government system running on a mainframe today is sitting on COBOL that nobody wants to touch and nobody can afford to leave …

Understanding Data Models: Benefits, Trade-offs, and History

The Object-Relational Mismatch Most development takes place in object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, which leads to a common criticism of the S…

Cybersecurity 101 : Windows Notifications

Introduction So imagine you are focused on your cappuccino-frappuccino doing something very important on you win laptop and then have a cringe attack …

Why Enterprise AI Governance Should Start at the Access Path

Many enterprise AI governance discussions start with frameworks. Frameworks are useful. They help organizations define principles, roles, controls and…

Stop AI Video Pipelines Before a Bad Render Gets Expensive

I was testing a faceless Shorts pipeline when a job reached the end without producing a video I wanted to publish. The incidents and measurements here…

Four Eras of Cloud Security. Same Verb.

✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. Scott Piper published a twenty-year retrospective on cloud security research in Ma…

Why Early MVPs Fail Before Launch

Most MVPs do not fail because the first version is too small. They fail because the first version is not focused enough. A real MVP is not just a redu…

Unify Web and Mobile Development with OTF's Cross-Platform Components

I've shipped three Buttons to production. The web one lives in your JS bundle. The iOS one is a SwiftUI view. The Android one is a Compose composable.…

Treat Per-Task Model Switching as a Concurrency Protocol

Changing the model for a running AI task is not a settings update. It is a distributed operation: read current task -> prepare credentials/config -…

Vibe Engineering: Solving Small Cross-Cutting Concerns

This article was originally published on my blog . Vibe Engineering: Solving Small Cross-Cutting Concerns I've been enamored by AI technologies far be…

ADR Template: How AI Generates Architecture Decision Records Your Future Self Will Thank You For

Teams make dozens of architectural decisions every month but document almost none of them. The rest dissolve into Slack threads, hallway conversations…

Your Coding Agent Knows the Internet's Average. Here's How to Make It Know Yours.

Disclosure up front: I build agentproto , whose knowledge and operator primitives are the back half of this piece. The problem in the first half stand…

Your Claude Skill Is Invisible to Codex. Here's How to Fix It.

Disclosure up front: I build agentproto , whose spec registry (the AIPs) is the last third of this piece. The problem in the first half stands on its …

Capturing, Streaming, Storing, and Visualizing Crypto Market Data in Real Time with PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kafka, JDBC & Grafana

In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency, market data changes every second — prices fluctuate, trades execute, and volumes shift continuously. Captu…

Ditching JSON & SQL Friction: Designing an Object-Shaped Memory Engine (Part 2)

For a long time, backend engineering has been divided into two camps: Relational databases (SQL) for rigid, structured tables, and Document stores (No…

Killing the Frontend: Building the Agent-Native Stack (Part 1)

For the last two decades, software engineering has followed a predictable formula: build a database, write an API, and build a massive, complex fronte…

Hyperscalers Are Building the Digital World Like It’s 2015 — And It Shows

I didn’t set out to diagnose hyperscalers. I wasn’t doing a grand industry analysis. I wasn’t mapping global architecture. I wasn’t trying to understa…

Benchmark an AI Agent Migration Without Believing One Speedup Number

Model migrations and dramatic agent speedups are recurring headlines. A single “2.2x faster” number cannot tell you whether your production workflow i…

MCP for TypeScript Developers: What It Actually Solves Beyond the Hype

MCP is one of the most talked-about ideas in AI right now. If you read enough posts, it starts to sound like MCP is the missing piece that makes agent…

I Stopped Treating WordPress Like a CMS (And My Projects Improved)

For years, I built WordPress websites the traditional way. Install a theme. Add a few plugins. Customize where needed. It worked... until the projects…