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Webhook Security Is Distributed Systems Security
A webhook looks like the easiest thing in your system. A provider sends you a POST, you read the JSON, you do the thing. Three lines. It is one of the most dangerous. Not because the parsing is hard,
Oct 3, 20269 min read
Shrink the Stochastic Surface: A Design Standard for Probabilistic Systems
I keep writing variations of the same sentence. Agent memory has to terminate at a source of truth. An agent loop has to terminate at a check. Generative 3D has to terminate at a verifier. The probabi
Sep 30, 202614 min read
Determinism Where You Can, Judgement Where You Must: The Technique Boundary for AI Systems
I have now written this same sentence three times in three pieces, so it is time to write the sentence underneath it. The first companion piece, Generative AI Builds Shapes, Not Games, argued that gen
Sep 29, 202618 min read
The Log Printed Exactly What I Wanted. The Fix Was Still Wrong.
I spent two days on a bug where a screen-capture stream never came back after the display went to sleep. When I finally had a patch I believed in, I ran it, put the machine's display to sleep, woke it
Sep 22, 202610 min read5
Merged Is Not Shipped: Why a Year-Old Fix Never Reached You
There is a version of a bug that is more frustrating than an unfixed one. It is a bug that was fixed, correctly, and then sat behind glass for a year while the people it was hurting kept reporting it,
Sep 21, 20269 min read
Docker × Kubernetes: What They Really Changed (It's Not What You Think)
Docker is not a virtual machine. Kubernetes is not a container tool. Fifteen years in, both are misunderstood — and misused — as a result. A working engineer's explanation of what they actually changed.
Apr 20, 20269 min read