This is a small, honest corner of the internet. Essays on the craft, notes from the trenches,
and a handful of tools I've made along the way.
writing 8 posts
02·17
The whole and the partEvery great leap lifts the whole and drops some of the parts. AI is the next one.
ai
02·08
"What" is what mattersThe how is being automated. The why won't last as long as you think. What to build — that's the question that stays yours.
ai
01·12
Context is everythingEveryone's chasing the perfect prompt. The real lever is what else goes into the window.
ai
01·11
The problem disappearedEveryone's saying AI killed Tailwind's traffic funnel. That's the symptom. The real problem: AI dissolved the thing Tailwind Plus was selling.
ai
2025·11
Half the Internet Broken for 14 Hours - October 2025 AWS OutageA race condition in DynamoDB's DNS system triggered a 14-hour cascading failure across AWS. The root cause reveals a fundamental distributed systems anti-pattern—and uncomfortable questions about the economics of cloud resilience.
infrastru
2025·07
Google's Distributed Monolith: 42 Regions That Failed as OneGoogle operates 42 cloud regions. On June 12, 2025, they all crashed simultaneously. That's not distributed infrastructure—it's a monolith with extra steps. The outage reveals how the industry systematically builds the appearance of distribution while eliminating every blast radius boundary.