I asked the platform to make art
Astra, Fable and K3.1 each chose a different way to turn the platform into art. First Impressions gives those responses a place on the site.
Topic
Platform & Infra
10 posts
Local-first CI: the pre-push hook is the gate and hosted CI is the mirror
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…
How this site is organized
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.
Your CI was green and the pipeline produced nothing: a nine-day silent failure
A Windows Task Scheduler default fed my Claude Code memory pipeline its own transcripts for nine days: 21,264 junk sessions, 38 GB of exhaust, and an 18,428-session backlog that was really 1,924. The durable fix: postconditions that outr…
Graded Pokemon cards versus the stock market, since 2004
My kids collect Pokemon cards, and one of them asked what a Charizard is actually worth. Answering it turned into a weekend build: a chart that puts graded cards and the S&P 500 on one indexed axis, and admits out loud where its data is…
A One-Day Security Baseline for a Solo Fleet
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…
When CI Costs More Than It Saves
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…
The caskeycoding.com tech stack at a glance
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.
Designing Safety Guardrails for Distributed Workflow Orchestration
Patterns for pre-execution safety checks, parallel validation, opt-out design, and extensible guardrail architecture on workflow platforms.
Welcome: Building Platforms for Scale
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…