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Allen Brooks

@earnestamateurGreenville, SC, USJoined July 2026

15 years building software, most of it learned by watching it get built badly. Now building platforms solo (heavy Claude Code) at Lionshead.

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ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.devAug 10 · 14 min read

I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.

I have a launch with a date that does not move. I also have a job between eight and five, a two year old, and a four month old. Everything I build, I build around those. So the binding constraint is n

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.devAug 3 · 9 min read

Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time

A static API token stored in GitHub Secrets is a breach that has not happened yet. The timer is already running. You do not know how long the fuse is, because a long-lived token's fuse is however long

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.devJul 31 · 6 min read

How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.

A feature makes money. A check protects it. Those are not the same job, and the difference is why checks rot. When you ship a feature, the market tells you fast whether it works. Someone signs up or t

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.devJul 31 · 9 min read

Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0

Every place I've worked plumbed everything to one shared dev environment. One database, one deploy, everyone's half-finished work landing in the same place. The database slowly filled with test accoun

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.devJul 31 · 9 min read

The security checks in every Lionshead PR

At enterprise scale, a breach is a bad quarter. You have a legal team to coordinate disclosure. A disaster-recovery plan you drill annually. A PR team to control the narrative. A security team to quar

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I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.

Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time

How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.

Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0

The security checks in every Lionshead PR

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Allen Brooks's blogs

Recently published

I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.

Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time

How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.

Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0

The security checks in every Lionshead PR