Building Flightdeck Tools
Evidence without automatic green lights
Why repository health, configuration baselines, and review receipts distinguish a verified observation from approval or certainty.
Notes on reliability.
Ideas and decisions from the things I’m building.
Building Flightdeck Tools
Guarding the dangerous moment before a local change
How gates, locks, Git preflights, and file guards reduce ambiguity around checks, worktrees, and agent-written files.
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.
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 BNC Cloud
Self-hosting Temporal and putting it to work
The infrastructure integration and application workflows behind our self-hosted Temporal deployment.
Building Helmsman
Moving the scheduler without running the work twice
A cutover trace from Helmsman's move to Kubernetes CronJobs: one declared owner per job, a revision-pinned switch, a rollback that could not be a revert, and alerts that had to move too.
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.