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If You're Cold, They're Cold

Platform engineering isn't just for large organizations. CNCF tooling makes it accessible, agents make it practical, and the distributed systems problems it solves don't care how big your team is.

Sequoia and GitOps: Publishing to the ATmosphere from CI

Static sites can publish to AT Protocol with Sequoia. Making it work in CI required solving a state tracking problem that isn't obvious until you've created your fifth set of duplicate records.

Building fast is the easy part. The hard part — the part nobody's figured out yet — is using agents to operate the business, not just build the product.

You Get What You Spec

Everything built and passed tests in isolation. Then I deployed to Kubernetes and it didn't line up. The agents amplify your specs faithfully — blind spots and all.

The Job Is the Spec

I stopped writing code and started writing specs. The cache ratio proves why — implementation sessions read 14,128 cached tokens for every 1 new token of input.

The Context Window Made Me a Better Engineer

The context window isn't a limitation — it's the forcing function that drives good decomposition. The same principle as Unix philosophy, applied to the act of building.

D'ya Like DAGs?

866 commits. 14 repos. Evenings and weekends. One person with a day job. Here's what happened when I stopped fighting the context window and started designing for it.

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