Your computer should take instructions — not hand them out.
Ex-Windows user, current Fedora lifer, full-time find-out-what-broke. Terminal tooling, AI-assisted development, and the plumbing between your editor and the internet — written up the morning after, while I still remember exactly where it hurt.
Recent Posts
130 Changes In One Commit — Then I Tried To Break It 🔬
A single pass added 130 outbound links across 28 posts. Two things would have broken the site in ways a reviewer would have missed. Here are the five gates that caught both.
Four Scanners Looked At My Blog From A Fedora Terminal — Three Were Telling The Truth 🔍
A review of Aikido's local scanner on Fedora: how it sets up, what its four scanners found in my blog, and the opt-in flag that makes a green tick lie.
I Pointed A Security Scanner At My Own Blog And It Found Exactly One Thing 🔍
One finding in 124 files, in code I'd have called fine — then it kept finding the same line after I fixed it. The real failure was one layer down.
From A Markdown File To A Reader's Screen: Everything That Happens When I Press Push 🚦
(updated )It feels like one action. It's a chain with a type checker, a search index, an image renderer and two CDN edges — and one stage has to delete something first.
I Put My Own Blog Into A Knowledge Graph And It Read My Terminal History Back To Me 🔮
It told me my codebase fit in one context window and I might not need a graph. I built one anyway: 410 nodes, 31 communities, and seven abandoned terminal emulators.
Nobody Tells You Your Link Preview Is Broken: My og:image 404'd The Whole Time 🙈
You paste your own link and the card comes back blank. No warning, no log line — just a URL pointing at a file that was never on disk. Here's how I found mine.
Netlify Builds It, Cloudflare Serves It: The Nameserver Swap That Broke Nothing 🛰️
(updated )Five DNS records, two sets of nameservers, one three-hour TTL. I split my build host from my edge without dropping a request — and DNS turned out to be the easy half.
I Built A Pipeline To Survive My Job Hunt — Then I Realised It Was The Product 💡
(updated )A rules file, a scorecard, three AIs and one human gate. I built it to get through my own job search — then read it back and it read like a spec. Here's what I'm building, and why the rules are the product.