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A technical guide to graph engineering for AI agents: nodes and edges, the fake edge test, the fan out and reduce diamond, independent verification, the failure modes nobody warns you about, and when a plain loop is the better call.→
Notes from building Skylark, an agentic desktop browser in Rust with a Chromium fork: why the harness matters more than the prompt, and why a smarter model isn't always a better agent.→
Apple's native container runtime hit v1.0 in June 2026. An honest look at where it beats Docker Desktop, where it doesn't, and how painful the switch actually is.→
A single OpenTelemetry trace showed us where to look. The fix was a five-line config change.→
Three years running a popular Go library taught me that the work isn't the code — it's the inbox.→
What happened, what we did about it, and the one thing I'd do differently next time.→
Obsidian is the foundation, but it doesn't do everything. Here's the local-first setup I use for personal notes and the small layer I add on top for enterprise.→
A short, opinionated list. Most of these are about saving a few seconds a hundred times a day.→