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After GitHub Actions burned a month of minutes in two days, the gate moved to the workstation. A pre-push hook runs a quick tier on every push, every green run writes a record tagged with its tier and commit, and a merge guard refuses an…
The navigation on caskeycoding.com is a build artifact: one public content graph, several switchable views projected from it, and CI checks that keep the graph and the routes from drifting apart.
You cannot out-staff a security team when you are the whole team. But the failures that actually end a solo operation are a short, known list, and each has a cheap defense you set up once. Here is the catastrophic floor I stood up in an…
GitHub Actions' default minute allowance is priced for a team that types at human speed. At agent velocity the bill breaks before the engineering does. Here is how a forced workaround, a local CI mirror plus local deploys, became the bet…
A high-level tour of the technologies running this site: Next.js on CloudFront, Python Lambdas behind API Gateway, DynamoDB plus S3, Anthropic's API with a Bedrock fallback, and AWS CDK wiring it together.
Where this blog started: owning enterprise monitoring at Prudential and Amazon, an automation mishap that paged a whole support queue for ten minutes, and the throughline that still runs through everything I build, make the safe path the…