Notes on interesting things I encounter and find worth sharing… and find the time to write about.
A script that turns git history into a heatmap of who can still change what. Not a metric to manage people by, a conversation starter about the risk you already have.
Keeping a system’s mental theory alive is the real work. Here are the practices we already know, a pile more that AI suggested, and an interactive tool to explore them all.
Legacy is not just old code. It is what happens when the theory of a system walks out the door with the people who built it.
How MCP Apps introduce an intent-based UI paradigm, and why collaborative modeling techniques like EventStorming and Domain Storytelling are the perfect fit for designing AI agent interactions.
Linking API test scenarios to traces so you can debug failures quickly with OpenTelemetry and Elastic APM.
How AWS AppConfig Feature Flags, CloudWatch Evidently, and CloudWatch RUM help you experiment faster and release safely using feature flags.