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5h ago · 5 min read · You hit docker stop. Nothing happens. You wait ten seconds. Docker eventually sends SIGKILL. The container disappears, but only after a frustrating timeout. Your CI pipeline is slower than it should be, your Kubernetes pod terminations are sluggish, ...
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5h ago · 6 min read · Last month I got a bug report that made me close my laptop and go for a walk. A paying user couldn't log in. Their device was rooted? Not according to them. Custom ROM? Yes. A modern, security-hardened Android build with verified boot and hardware-ba...
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9h ago · 6 min read · If you've ever wired up an AI agent to do real work, you've probably hit the same wall I did: filesystem access is a minefield. Give it too much rope and it'll happily rm -rf something important. Lock it down too hard and it can't actually do anythin...
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12h ago · 5 min read · The bug that took two weeks to surface A few months back I shipped a feature that used a language model to summarize support tickets and suggest responses. Internal QA loved it. The demo went great. Two weeks after launch, our support lead pinged me ...
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13h ago · 5 min read · You ever migrate a Node.js service to an alternative JavaScript runtime, watch most of your tests pass, then spend an entire afternoon hunting down the handful that fail? I have. Three times this year. Here's the thing about runtime compatibility num...
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