Writing & build logs.
Essays on software development, web builds, and AI tooling. Plus build notes from what I'm actually working on right now.
The sibling-rehash rule: wired in the prompt, enforced in the filter
The picker generates three thesis variants per upgrade decision. Multiple upgrade taps on the same topic, same source material, different angles: the pipeline could queue two articles that were really one. Fixing that took two layers — one in the drafter prompt, one in the substitute filter — because prompts are probabilistic and filters are not.
25 PRs, a rescued BoE fetcher, and a composer taught restraint: the editorial pipeline ships
PR #53 merged on 12 June: the first article through the full X.8 grounded editorial pipeline. The morning sweep showed three gaps that had been quietly open — a stale PR that would have deleted the BoE rates fetcher, a composer inferring beyond its sources, and a design sprint that completed the day after. All three closed within 72 hours.
Five sprints inside one PR: what an iOS budget app's side-branch pattern reveals about tracking
PR #10 on an iOS budget app landed five complete features in a single merge. Each devlog entry reads as a self-contained sprint brief with its own type, its own boundary, its own completion signal. PR-level granularity and feature-level granularity are not the same number.
The dedup layer had three hash schemes. CDImportSource replaced them — and four banks validated with zero per-bank code.
The an iOS budget app import layer had three coexisting hash schemes with no shared contract between them. Collapsing them into CDImportSource — a unified source-attribution model — was the structural prerequisite for universal CSV and PDF parsers that validated across Monzo, Halifax, Revolut, and HSBC.
The S-4 cohort made two editorial pipeline decisions. I shipped them.
Two weeks of UK Calculators editorial pipeline sprints ended with two decisions that came from the cohort data, not preference: live Bank of England rate fetches and a constrained LLM composer. The pipeline silently stalled for four days after shipping.