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Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

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27 Jul 2026

A postmortem for a launch that actually went fine

We started writing a short retrospective after successful launches, not just failed ones, on the theory that luck and process look identical from the outside.

ProcessDeliveryQuality

Process · 5 min

24 Jul 2026

The load test that only mattered because of one integration

Our own application handled the traffic without difficulty. A third-party service two calls downstream did not, and that was the whole story.

TestingQualityEngineering

Quality · 6 min

23 Jul 2026

When a coding agent should not see the whole ticket

More context usually helps a model reason better. There is a specific, narrow case where giving it everything makes the output worse, and we found it by accident.

AIClaudeEngineering

AI · 6 min

22 Jul 2026

What we look for when a freelancer hands us a codebase

We are regularly brought in after a solo freelancer moves on. The pattern of what we find is consistent enough to be worth writing down.

Case studyEngineeringQuality

Case notes · 6 min

21 Jul 2026

The runbook that replaced a single person's memory

An incident at 2am is a bad time to discover that the only person who knows how the deploy pipeline actually works is asleep and unreachable.

ProcessEngineeringDelivery

Process · 5 min

20 Jul 2026

Keeping a monorepo honest as it grows

A shared repository is a convenience until the day two teams' changes start colliding invisibly. We wrote down the rules that keep that day rare.

EngineeringArchitectureProcess

Engineering · 6 min