When a Green Deployment Still Serves a 500
A REX production incident exposed the gap between a successful Kubernetes rollout and a working application, and what we changed to close it.
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The One-Person Company Is a Coordination Problem
I am exploring how a one-person company can use agents, observability, and market intelligence without turning automation into an ungoverned second company.
When Productivity Turns Against Its Purpose
The AI boom promises abundance, but without a fairer distribution of power it may deepen the poverty, dependency, and cultural depletion it claims to overcome.
When the Report Button Becomes a Competitive Weapon
Unfair competition has learned to exploit platforms, moderation systems, and the gap between takedown and appeal, from invented users to AI-generated consensus.
Hermes vs OpenClaw, NanoClaw, ZeroClaw, IronClaw: Agent Architecture
A practical, architectural comparison of Hermes, OpenClaw, NanoClaw, ZeroClaw, and IronClaw, and why a layered agent system beats picking one winner.
Could AI Simulate Billions of Possible Human Lives?
An exploration of large language models as compressed maps of human experience, and what a branching world model built on them might reveal.
I Audited the OpenVPN Server I Wrote a Guide For
Two years after publishing a guide to restricting OpenVPN clients to specific IPs, I audited the server it built, and most of the findings trace back to the guide.
Codebase Memory for Coding Agents: Graft, Graphify, and codebase-memory-mcp
A practical comparison of Graft, Graphify, and codebase-memory-mcp: what each indexes, how each feeds coding agents, and when to use one instead of another.
When a Rails or LMS Platform Becomes Hard to Change
A practical way for small education and SaaS teams to diagnose Rails or LMS platform friction and decide whether a rewrite is actually justified.
When Ubuntu Builds Fail on libvips but macOS Does Not
Why a Rails test suite can fail on Ubuntu because of an older native libvips, and how to upgrade it safely without confusing it with the ruby-vips gem.