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My kids collect Pokemon cards, and one of them asked what a Charizard is actually worth. Answering honestly 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 da…
A scheduled job on my fleet reported success for weeks while the program inside it failed every run. The watchdog that should have caught it was broken too, and its silence read as health. What I now require from every check that guards…
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.
Patterns for pre-execution safety checks, parallel validation, opt-out design, and extensible guardrail architecture on workflow platforms.
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…