Twelve themes

Every post sits in one theme. Each theme has an Everyday lane, written in plain words, and a Technical lane, the build log behind it. Pick the problem you recognise and start there.

• Silent failures

  Why green dashboards lie, and how to build checks that catch what is actually broken.

  24 Everyday · 85 Technical

• Trusting AI output

  How to tell a plausible AI answer from a correct one before it costs you.

  6 Everyday · 42 Technical

• Working with agents

  How to run AI coding agents day to day: memory, context, handoffs, many sessions at once.

  13 Everyday · 88 Technical

• Agent guardrails

  Where an agent may act and where it must stop: permissions, destructive operations, secrets, approvals.

  14 Everyday · 56 Technical

• Legacy code

  Changing a big old app that still earns money, without a rewrite.

  8 Everyday · 34 Technical

• Data correctness

  Databases that quietly hold wrong data or run slow, and getting back what was lost.

  11 Everyday · 34 Technical

• Bots and the edge

  Telling real visitors from swarms, and what a CDN, WAF and geo rules will and will not do for you.

  3 Everyday · 29 Technical

• Hosting and migrations

  Moving sites, domains and servers between platforms without customers noticing.

  5 Everyday · 20 Technical

• Shipping safely

  Releases, hotfixes, CI and tickets: knowing a change is really live and really done.

  7 Everyday · 63 Technical

• Payments and money

  Where card payments, receipts and prices go wrong between the gateway and your own records.

  7 Everyday · 15 Technical

• Debugging craft

  A method for finding the real cause: measure first, read the whole system, distrust the label.

  11 Everyday · 67 Technical

• Running the work

  How a small team decides, plans, writes things down, supports customers and keeps work from being lost.

  19 Everyday · 43 Technical