Part 1: The Automaton’s Bias I keep a folder on my encrypted drive labeled SCHADENFREUDE. It sits right next to BLACKLIST and RESIGNATION_DRAFTS. Inside SCHADENFREUDE, there is a special place fo...

The Pre-Mortem I was reading the post-mortem of the CrowdStrike outage. You know the one. The one where a C++ NULL pointer dereference turned the global economy into a screensaver for 48 hours. I...

I recently took a tour through the git history of my own security scanner project, CamSniff, and I found something that made me stop and stare at my monitor for a solid five minutes. It was a comm...

Look, I’m just going to come out and say it: I’ve built a robot that writes code while I sleep, and it’s both the most terrifying and most liberating thing I’ve ever done. I know what you’re think...

So, here’s a funny story. And by “funny,” I mean “I want to crawl into a hole and die of embarrassment.” This morning I shipped a superadmin dashboard to production. It was beautiful. It had butto...

You know that scene in The Matrix Reloaded where Agent Smith copies himself a thousand times and creates a small army of suited men to fight Neo? Well, I built that. Except instead of fighting Kea...

I recently lost 45 minutes of my life. I will never get them back. I could have spent them learning to juggle, or watching an episode of a mediocre sitcom, or literally staring at a wall. Instead,...

There is a fundamental law of software engineering that states: “Every sufficiently complex distributed system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden implementation of half of AWS.” ...

They told us ARM64 was the promised land. “It’s cheaper!” they said. “It’s more power-efficient!” they said. “Amazon Graviton is 40% faster for 20% less cost!” What they didn’t mention is that yo...

“Move fast and break things,” Zuckerberg said. He didn’t mention that the “thing” you break might be your entire PostgreSQL cluster, and the “mover” might be an LLM that hallucinates systemd comma...