The Problem Nobody Talks About Until the Agent Drops a Production Table The thing that catches most teams off guard isn’t the agent hallucinating a table name or mangling a JOIN — it’s the agent writing a perfectly valid SQL statement that does exactly what it was asked to do, just at 10x the intended … Read more
Why I Built a Pokémon Game on Top of Kubernetes The thing that broke me was watching a junior dev stare at kubectl get pods -A output for 45 seconds, completely lost. Not because they weren’t smart — they just had no mental model for what a cluster is. Every dashboard I tried to hand … Read more
The Problem: Your CI Pipeline Takes 12 Minutes to Build a 2GB Image A 2GB image that takes 12 minutes to build on every push isn’t just annoying — it’s a compounding tax on your entire team. Every feature branch, every hotfix, every “just a one-liner” commit burns 12 minutes of CI time. Multiply that … Read more
What This Setup Does and Whether It’s Still Working ## What This Setup Does and Whether It’s Still Working **Skip the context?** The filter pack is in [this GitHub gist](#) — copy-paste ready, no setup explanation needed. — Running this for a few weeks, my rough estimate is that visible posts per scroll drop from … Read more
The Problem: Plain QR Codes Look Terrible on Marketing Materials The thing that caught me off guard was how violently designers react when you hand them a standard QR code. Black squares on white. No personality. They’ll drop it into a brochure and immediately ask if they can “make it look like something.” The functional … Read more
The Problem That Started This The requirement landed in a Notion doc three weeks before sprint planning: customers needed to configure custom parts — think L-shaped brackets, enclosures with variable wall thickness, mounting plates with parametric hole patterns — directly inside our SaaS dashboard. No file uploads, no “download and open in Blender”, no installer … Read more
The Moment I Realized I’d Forgotten How to Write a Regex Six months into daily Copilot use, I hit a 2-hour train journey (no signal, not a flight, but the metaphor holds) and needed to write a regex to parse some log timestamps. Basic stuff — capturing named groups, optional milliseconds, timezone offset. I sat … Read more
The Problem That Made Me Care About This I was staring at an AWS bill — $4,200/month on EBS volumes for a single Elasticsearch cluster — and couldn’t figure out where it was going. The indexed documents were large but not that large. After a week of digging with the _cat/indices API and some segment-level … Read more
What This Article Covers (and What It Doesn’t) ## What This Article Covers (and What It Doesn’t) This article walks through all three Durable Functions forms — orchestrators, activities, and entities — with working TypeScript code using the **v3 SDK async/await syntax**. No generator functions. No `yield`-based patterns from the legacy SDK. If you’re on … Read more
The Problem: Game Logic That Fights Your Code The cutscene example is one I keep coming back to because it’s so brutally mundane — yet it exposes the exact fracture between how programmers think about game logic and how we’re forced to implement it. You want to express: walk to door, wait 2 seconds, open … Read more