He spent two years letting cars drive him. Now he's back on horses.

A man spent two years letting cars drive him around. He’s back on horses. 865 engineers debated whether that means the cars are broken.

March 27, 2026 · 2 min · Russell

Managing LLM context in a real application

How Claudriel manages LLM context in production: conversation trimming, turn budgets, model fallback, prompt caching, and per-turn token telemetry.

March 27, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

This blog now accepts guest posts

Developers can now submit posts to this blog via pull request. No fees, no exclusivity, no nonsense.

March 27, 2026 · 2 min · Russell

Vibe coding isn't the problem. Your workflow is.

The critics of vibe coding aren’t wrong about the symptoms — they’re wrong about the cause.

March 27, 2026 · 3 min · Russell

Secrets, Certificates, and Credential Rotation

Manage .env files, encrypt secrets with Ansible Vault, and rotate credentials without downtime.

March 26, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Building an Ojibwe Crossword Puzzle for Minoo

How Minoo’s crossword game teaches Anishinaabemowin through daily puzzles, Elder-authored clues, and a three-layer learning design.

March 25, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Kernel and Systemd Service Hardening

Tune kernel parameters with sysctl and sandbox services with systemd to reduce your VPS attack surface.

March 25, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Publishing a PHP monorepo to Packagist with splitsh-lite

How waaseyaa went from a monorepo with 43 path-repository subpackages to individually installable Composer packages on Packagist using splitsh-lite.

March 25, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

AI-native PHP: the waaseyaa AI packages

What ai-schema, ai-agent, ai-pipeline, and ai-vector enable in a PHP framework designed for AI from the ground up, and an honest look at what’s built versus what’s planned.

March 24, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

Caddy Hardening: Security Headers and Rate Limiting

Add security headers, rate limiting, and server identity removal to your Caddy configuration.

March 24, 2026 · 4 min · Russell