Why I Dropped Pull Requests on a Repo Only My Agents and I Touch
On June 1, I deleted a pull request trigger from a repository where no human reviewer was ever going to use it.
The build log
Notes from running agents in production.
Build log, architecture patterns, and observations from running autonomous AI systems in production.
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Cloudflare Error 1014: The Cert Issued. The Page Didn't Load.
One proxied=False to proxied=True flip closed the ticket, but it took two wrong root causes and a live domain to find the flag, and it rewrote a design doc that had been wrong for months.
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When a work queue stops telling the truth
A priority label can quietly become a history marker. The fix is not a bulk cleanup; it is restoring a clear difference between work in progress, planned work, and the links that keep unfinished work findable.
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The console window that flashed every 30 minutes: Interactive vs S4U scheduled tasks
A PowerShell window flashed up on my desktop every 30 minutes, on the dot. Not an error, not a crash, just a black console that appeared and vanished while I was in the middle of something else.
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Scope Is the Unit, Not Persona: Rethinking How You Load Context Into AI Agents
The real context primitive for AI agents isn't a persona. It's a scope: a deterministic, enumerable file set every consumer resolves the same way.
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The Self-Updating Deploy Script That Has to Fail Once to Fix Itself
Pushed a fix to a deploy script, watched it fail again at the exact same line. The script updates itself mid-run; the version in memory is always one run behind the version on disk.
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tRPC 401 vs REST: when a reviewer's suggestion is right in substance, wrong in transport
An external reviewer told me to add a tRPC aggregation endpoint to feed a dashboard zone. The design was right.
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The False 200: When Removing a Binding Reveals Your Verification Was Lying
A CDN cutover returned a clean 200, so I called it verified. Then I deleted what I thought was dead weight and the page dropped to 404. The 200 had been the interim binding answering the whole time.
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Where does the daemon live? Reusing a scheduled-task tick instead of always-on infra
I was building an autonomous PM loop, the kind of thing that wakes up on its own, looks at what is open, and proposes the next move. The hardest decision of the day was not a line of code.
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The Cloudflare-for-SaaS + IIS Gotcha Nobody Documents: SNI vs Host Header
Cloudflare for SaaS can send SNI and Host header with different values, and IIS routes on Host only. On a Full zone the mismatch serves the wrong site silently.
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