When a candidate goes through your entire interview process, and you end up deciding not to hire, they deserve to know why.

The AI ecosystem can be really confusing: Agents, MCPs, skills, plugins, everything is an overloaded term and a fuzzy concept. This is an explanation of how these constructs work in plain terms, usefu...

Our entire event-driven platform ran through a single message broker, which made it a single point of failure. So we added a second one. This is the story of building an event load balancer, the queue...

Our learnings from implementing a product-wide read replica migrations, including some useful patterns for routing queries to replica and primary

AI removes the friction where learning used to happen. Choose the friction. At least sometimes.

An `asciicast` file format parser. Contribute to nlopes/asciicast-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

What building an AsciiDoc toolchaing looks like after 18 months, a parser rewrite, and a bunch of experiments.

A forward look at where engineering teams are heading with AI, based on conversations with design partners who are visibly six-to-twelve months ahead of the average. Tailored code agents, MCP gateways...

A typographically-refined archive of every Rust release, issue by issue.

First-draft AI skills are usually broken in ways the author can't see. A walk through how I built our daily AI spend report skill, with iteration discipline borrowed from Atul Gawande's Checklist Mani...