Putting AI agents to work in engineering teams: agentic coding, distributed systems, and the teams that ship them.
A Claude Code mod that keeps your agent's open questions above the prompt: about 250 lines, written by Claude itself, and how to build your own.
7 min · claude-codeClaude Code hooks guide: all 33 lifecycle events, exit code 2 blocking, PreToolUse examples, the stop_hook_active trap, and the patterns worth shipping.
19 min · claude-codeClaude Code SKILL.md frontmatter reference: all 20 fields, the context: fork and agent pair, body templating, and the bugs you'll hit in practice.
15 min · claude-codeKotter's 8-step change model in practice: an engineering leader's take on each step, from creating urgency to anchoring change in team culture.
7 min · managementA Claude Code mod that keeps your agent's open questions above the prompt: about 250 lines, written by Claude itself, and how to build your own.
Claude Code hooks guide: all 33 lifecycle events, exit code 2 blocking, PreToolUse examples, the stop_hook_active trap, and the patterns worth shipping.
Claude Code SKILL.md frontmatter reference: all 20 fields, the context: fork and agent pair, body templating, and the bugs you'll hit in practice.
ForgeCode vs Claude Code: how ForgeCode's 81.8% Terminal-Bench score got rescored, where both agents stand on Terminal-Bench 4.0, and which CLI to pick now.
The Claude Code source leak, six months on: what the 2.1.88 source map exposed, which hidden features shipped, which died, and how the agent really works.
MCP vs A2A in 2026: what each AI agent protocol does, when you need A2A, and what happened to ACP, ANP, Agora, and the rest of the 2025 protocol rush.
Rust smart pointers cheat sheet: Box, Rc, Arc, RefCell, Cell, Cow, Mutex, and RwLock, with examples and a table of when to use each one.
Database replication methods compared: statement-based, write-ahead log (WAL), logical log, and trigger-based replication, with the pros and cons of each.
Kotter's 8-step change model in practice: an engineering leader's take on each step, from creating urgency to anchoring change in team culture.
Roll back PyCharm or any JetBrains IDE settings after a bad cloud sync: find the settingsSync Git history and restore your settings to a specific date.
Python threading, semaphores, and barriers explained with runnable code: limit concurrent workers, sync threads at a checkpoint, and avoid common pitfalls.
CAP theorem for developers: what a network partition forces you to choose, why CA isn't an option, how Spanner, DynamoDB, and Cassandra behave, and PACELC.
Solidity variable types explained: value vs reference types, storage, memory, and calldata, constant vs immutable, slot packing, and pragma versions.
Solidity gas optimization measured on solc 0.8.37: storage caching, calldata, custom errors, immutable, transient storage, optimizer settings, and the myths.
Pull over push in Solidity: why paying users in a loop breaks, and how to let them withdraw with call, checks-effects-interactions, and ReentrancyGuard.
Python deadlocks explained with examples: circular wait, self-deadlock, and starvation, plus 7 ways to avoid them, from lock ordering to timeouts.