Writing
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Software engineering
- What Grid shows now: GB electricity, adding up
- Why I treat AI agents as identities first
- What goes into my AI agent harness (and what I leave out)
- Bounded contexts and monadic composition: how I structure code for AI coding agents
- The evals I actually run on LLM features, and how I roll them back
- Quality gates for AI-written code: what I check before anything merges
- Building Grid: a dashboard of Britain's electricity system from public data
- Why I named my company Comonad
- Turning disaster recovery into an engaging game
- Ten common anti-patterns in software development
- SOLID principles, with pros and cons
- Architecture styles: a working vocabulary
- Side effects and I/O: containing the parts that touch the world
- Monads 101: the common ones in plain terms
- The GIL and JIT compilation in Python
- Types of databases: relational, column, document, graph and time-series
- Translating Python to JavaScript with the ast module
- Cyclomatic complexity in Python, measured with ast