blog.darlington.devThe Markdown Attack Nobody's Talking About.I ran ls ~/.claude/skills/ the other day and found SKILL.md files I don't remember installing. Probably grabbed them from some GitHub link in a Discord thread months ago at like 2am. Opened one up, it was fine, just boring config stuff. But it could ...Feb 5·8 min read
blog.darlington.devThe Architect’s IllusionThat question matters only when your bottleneck is load, not signal. Why launch with Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-region failovers… for a product no one’s using yet? Designing “for the future” feels smart. It looks clean on the whiteboard. But th...May 8, 2025·4 min read
blog.darlington.devAI Won’t Teach You to Think Like a Developer (Unless you ask it).AI isn’t just writing our code; it’s rewriting how we learn to code. Tools like Claude and Copilot can generate entire functions and refactor codebases in seconds completing weeks of dev work in hours. But not everyone’s convinced it’s a good thing. ...May 5, 2025·5 min read
blog.darlington.devThe Best Architecture Is the One You Can Maintain“Architecture is like plumbing. Invisible when done right, but when it fails, someone has to clean up the shit.” It might look modular, and “scalable” on a diagram, but diagrams don’t crash at midnight. Production does, and that’s when your on-call ...May 2, 2025·4 min read
