Building Flightdeck Tools
State that survives the terminal
Four small tools for durable messages, lifecycle history, generation-safe progress, and decisions whose original wording remains intact.
Notes on data.
Ideas and decisions from the things I’m building.
Building BNC Cloud
When every small app brings its own connection pool
The shared Postgres limit, the rollout that reduced idle connections, and why a green dashboard is only one kind of evidence.
Building Helmsman
A data architecture that remembers what it knew
One synthetic corrected value traced through the real observation writer and schema: revisions as new rows, an as-known-at query, frozen run inputs, and freshness judged against schedule and consumer.
Building Helmsman
Building a real-time news parsing pipeline
One synthetic headline traced through a partial observation, an upgrade, duplicate deliveries, an edit and a retraction, using the ingestion writer's real storage contract.
Building Helmsman
Turning a chart argument into a testable definition
One vague chart claim turned into three versioned definitions and replayed on synthetic data through Structure Lab's real detector and registry. The replay shows what a new version does to earlier annotations and evidence.