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Waffle Fries Are the Worst Fry
#fries#rankings
Waffle fries are the worst fry, Five Guys fries are awful no matter how many end up in the bag, and cutting a potato fresh means literally nothing. Thirteen shapes and thirteen chains, ranked.
128KB of RAM Made Better Games Than Unlimited Compute Does
#creativity#constraints#craft
The best work came from someone who couldn't do the obvious thing. Now the wall is gone, and self-imposed limits only hold when something outside your own willpower enforces them.
Four Runs, Same Wrong Number: What Context Actually Buys a Coding Agent
#evals#agents#context-engineering
296 scored trials of a headless coding agent on real tasks from my shipping products, across four context regimes and two models. Including the bugs I found in my own harness and the doc gaps the failures point at.
My Terminal Congratulated Me for Clearing the Screen
#glimmervoid#claude-code#agents#debugging
My agent dashboard told me a session finished when all I did was clear the scrollback. Three war stories from making Claude Code's own signals tell the truth about what six parallel sessions are actually doing.
Teaching an AI to Parse Emails Once, Then Never Again
#llm-architecture#parsing#python#cost-engineering
When an unknown email format shows up, call an LLM exactly once to generate a reusable extraction profile, then parse that format deterministically forever. Zero AI calls on the hot path.
The 403 That Refused to Be a One-Line Fix
#azure#rbac#bicep#infrastructure-as-code
A failing deploy, a hand-edited Azure role shared by three services, and why the real fix was an IAM-as-code layer with a drift gate instead of a permissions patch.
We Audited 24 READMEs by Hand. Then We Deleted the Process.
#developer-experience#ci#documentation#process
Twenty pull requests into a manual documentation cleanup, we abandoned the epic on purpose and replaced it with a linter and a required CI check.