Essays

Writing

Longer pieces about operating this platform — the ones that are an argument rather than a decision record or a postmortem.

The ADRs record what I chose and what it cost. Lessons Learned records what broke. This is for the pieces that are neither: an argument I want to make, usually because working on the platform changed my mind about something.

Sep 2026

Everything Was Green

A weekend that started with a self-signed certificate on a UPS and ended 164 commits later with seven applications that had never had a login. Almost nothing in between was broken — including the audit I got wrong.