Thinking about architecture, engineering, and how systems actually work.
architecture
Four Packages That Are Not Allowed to Know What Time It IsA rule you have to remember is a wish; a rule that fails CI is a property. How Accrulith keeps clocks, floats and chance out of the code that computes balances, why anything that prices or scores needs the same discipline, and the check that turned out to be watching the wrong files.
· 12 min read
ai
How I Let an AI Write Code I Will ShipThe right unit of trust for a coding agent is the smallest action you cannot take back. How ForgeGate lets an agent write most of the code while a program checks its scope, two reviewers must cite evidence, and a human reads every diff before anything is committed — and what it still cannot enforce.
· 12 min read
lessons learned
Working With Designers: Turning Vision Into RealityMost engineers approach designer collaboration as a translation problem. It's actually a partnership problem.
· 5 min read
ai
Using AI in Real Products, Not Just DemosAI in a demo is a magic trick. AI in production is an engineering subsystem.
· 6 min read