IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
06 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session reviewing the top 5 words and idioms from this week (breakpoint, quantize, throttle, elaborate, approachable) with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more06 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL with JSONB, React 19, React Native -- and no Kafka, no microservices, no batch pipeline. Why family scale changes every decision.
Read more05 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering networking and meeting new people at events, with pronunciation guide, exercises, and real-world examples.
Read more05 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
CrowdStrike shipped an identity provider built specifically for AI agents at Fal.Con 2026 — continuous, risk-aware authorization instead of static tokens. A technical lead's take on the pattern, and why it's different from the NHI advice everyone's already writing.
Read more05 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Cursor shipped Origin — a waitlist-only Git forge that lets cloud agents push code without ever touching GitHub. A technical lead's read on what it means when 35% of merged PRs are already agent-authored.
Read more05 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Anthropic shipped a beta that lets you add or remove tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. Why that matters for long-running agents, and what I changed in my own agent's tool-loading logic after reading the spec.
Read more04 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
OpenCode, the open-source terminal coding agent, grew past 170,000 GitHub stars by staying model-agnostic and monetizing through Zen, a zero-markup inference gateway. A Tech Lead's breakdown of the bring-your-own-model economics and when it actually beats a single-vendor coding agent subscription.
Read more04 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
agents
Console went from a $6.2M seed to a $500M acquisition by Palo Alto Networks in about two years, automating IT help desk tickets with AI agents. A Tech Lead's breakdown of what made an agentic ITSM layer worth that price, and how to evaluate whether your own ticket queue is a good target for the same pattern.
Read more04 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agents
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra ships with a 1M-token context window and browser/computer control that works by reading pixels, not APIs. A Tech Lead's take on what this actually unlocks, where it breaks, and how to design review gates before you let it touch production systems.
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