Things I build, break, fix, and write about

Cloudflare Radar AS routing looks tidy until you remember it is built from observed BGP paths, not the whole internet. I trust it most when a chart looks awkward, because that is usually where the...

I prefer keeping the Cloudflare Mesh container image beside the app, not baked into it. The Pod stays clean, the app stays ignorant, and the irritating bit lives where it can be replaced without...

Cloudflare AI Gateway unified billing is one of those settings that looks minor until the bill starts moving in a different direction. I’ve seen enough homelab nonsense to know the boring controls...

Google DeepMind is a useful place to watch when product pressure meets safety theatre. The interesting bit is not the model release, but who has the nerve, and the authority, to say no when the...

I prefer a Go standard library context engine when the token limit matters, because it forces the awkward bit up front, before the prompt is stitched together. Get the ranking wrong and you do not...

AI governance gets awkward fast when government records are involved, because the model is rarely the problem. The problem is the sloppy boundary around it, the sort I have seen quietly turn a...

Structured metadata only works when it matches how people actually retrieve content. I have seen neat schemas fail as soon as the library meets real records, and tarot makes the problem obvious. If...

Federation looks tidy until you let it touch the edges, and then the odd cases arrive fast. I prefer self-hosted social feeds that stay explicit about what is local, what is remote, and what should...

FireAvert’s setup does the part that matters without asking Home Assistant to babysit it, which is exactly how I want stove protection to behave. The Home Assistant Z-Wave stove shutoffs badge is...

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