- 2026-08-06A Public Repo That Still Deploys Real InfrastructureThe third and final piece on taking a home-lab project open source: the moment scrubbing a public repo turns into "how does this still deploy to my own NAS," and the private pipeline built to answer it.7 min
- 2026-08-06The Advisor Tool: The Question Code Review Can't AskTests and code review ask whether a change is right. Almost nothing asks whether it's complete — whether the request, as written, described the whole job. That third question is what a stronger model reviewing the transcript is unusually good at, and the terminal shows you almost none of it.7 min
- 2026-08-03The Git History You Can't Actually DeleteThe second piece on taking a home-lab project open source: what "rewrite git history" actually turns out to mean once GitHub is involved. Hidden PR refs, an unredactable Copilot comment, a false alarm, and a purge that came back five times bigger than scoped.10 min
- 2026-07-29The Boring 90%The first of three pieces on taking a home-lab project open source: rotating a leaked credential, discovering a docker-compose.yml was secretly production, and using AI to finally make a years-deferred rename cheap enough to just do.10 min
- 2026-07-12Trust, Doubt, and a Production Rate-Limit IncidentA production incident post-mortem where the debugging partner was an AI agent — the real story is when I believed it, when I didn't, and why that mattered.11 min