"Confluence Docs Lie. Tie Your Documentation to Code Instead."
Every team has that Confluence page. The one that was carefully written to explain what the service does, what the API looks like, what each DB column…
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Green tests, broken docs. Dogfooding caught what 15 tests missed
A broken doc still renders. That is the whole reason documentation rot is so dangerous. The page looks fine right up to the moment someone clicks the …
How We Sourced a 12-Part Tech Investigation So Every Claim Survives a Hostile Fact-Check
I just shipped a 12-part video series on cloud economics - depreciation schedules, lock-in, licensing disputes, bundling cases. The kind of material w…
Architecture Drift Detection: Keep Your Code Aligned with Design
Somewhere in your organization, there's an architecture diagram that's wrong. Maybe it shows a microservice that was merged into another six months ag…
Reverse Engineer Any Database into dbdiagram.io, PlantUML, Mermaid, or QuickDBD - Then Keep Designing
Most database diagram tools stop at documentation. They connect to your database, inspect the schema, and generate a report or a picture. That is usef…
Your Terraform estate documents itself now: meet iac-cartographer
"Wait: How many Terraform repos do we actually have? And what's in them?" If that question makes you wince, this post is for you. It started as a bori…
Stop Cloning Entire Repos for Your Doc Builds
Your docs live next to your code. That's the docs-as-code promise — version control, pull request reviews, CI/CD pipelines. It works beautifully. Unti…
Everyone Needs a README for Their Life
"If you don't document it, the next person inherits your confusion—and that next person is often you, six months later, in a different city, wondering…
Why Your GitHub README Diagrams Look Amateur (and the 4 Fixes That Take 10 Minutes)
TL;DR If your README diagrams look like every other open-source repo's, that's because they all use the same four defaults. Switching to theme: 'base'…
Capture the Reasoning Path, Not the Final State
Two files, one discipline, and a measured 10-13% of my Claude Code budget. A while back, mid-session with Claude Code, I typed a pushback in the kind …
Running FreeIPA on Ubuntu Using Podman
There was this consideration to replace OpenLDAP with FreeIPA in the university authentication infrastructure. The main motivation for this was to imp…
How I Documented an Entire Product in 4 Days with an AI Agent
I had 55 pages of documentation to write, 59 screenshots to capture, and a product that was still shipping features and being rebranded weeks before r…
Your Support Tickets Are a Documentation Backlog in Disguise
You know the feeling. You are deep in a debugging session, finally making progress on that memory leak, and a Slack notification pulls you out. A cust…
I Thought Portfolios Weren't for People Like Me. So I Built a Wiki Instead.
For a long time I operated under a quiet assumption: portfolios are for developers. They're for people who build things — apps, tools, open source pro…
Enterprise Architecture Diagrams That Actually Scale
Your service is down. Latency spiked to 30 seconds. You pull up the architecture wiki, desperate to trace the failure path, and find... a messy Visio …
From Code to Clouds: Hosting a Professional Resume on GitHub Pages(2)
Introduction In Part 1 , we successfully moved the resume from a local editor to a live URL . But an empty repository is like a house without a front …