Writing

Conversation runs two objectives at once — information and cohesion — and most rooms weight cohesion higher. What that costs the truth-seeker, and what to do instead.

Help given unasked creates debt only in your own ledger. On unrequested contracts, fake help, and why the best help is infrastructure.

Social convention is a protocol, the protocol is undocumented, and if you weren't born with a working implementation, the answer is reverse engineering.

The problem is not your output. The problem is where you're sending it — a signal-processing view of being 'a lot'.

Field notes published a day early for everyone west of Greenwich.

JSON.stringify does not escape angle brackets, and JSON-LD lives inside a script tag.

Sixteen SVG elements shared four ids. The page looked fine, which was the problem.

Why short notes live separately from the long guides.

A rewrite dropped the skip-to-content link, and no test noticed for months.

Cloudflare Turnstile and Google sign-in both block stock Playwright. Patchright plus a two-phase launch gets through. Here is the flow that works.

Config files and local commands hold up on one host. Add a second machine and the cracks show. This is what breaks, and why.

How I use VS Code and an AI assistant together without letting it write code I do not read. Written for a friend who asked.

Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager on a cluster, with the Helm values I actually use.