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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.dev1d ago · 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.dev1d ago · 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.dev1d ago · 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

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.dev1d ago · 4 min read

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why.

Corporate CI is often the red-headed stepchild of the dev team. Written six years ago by a consulting firm, held together with cron jobs whose owners left in two reorgs, touched only when it breaks. N

ABAllen Brookslionshead-notes.hashnode.dev1d ago · 2 min read

Every website should have a colophon

Every developer I know has the same itch. Pop the hood on a website, a SaaS app, an app on the App Store, and see how it was built. Which framework. Which hosting. Which type. The craft underneath the

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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

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why.

Every website should have a colophon

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Recently published

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

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why.

Every website should have a colophon