Four Prompts to an Impossible Tesseract
It’s Friday afternoon. I have an AI coding agent open (Claude, via the Copilot CLI), and I’ve been using Google’s Gemini to generate featured images for blog posts all week. So I decide to try…
Sharing GitHub Copilot Instructions Across Repos and Teams
Your AI assistant starts every conversation as a blank slate. It doesn’t know your team uses COALESCE instead of ISNULL. It doesn’t know your naming conventions, your commit message format, or the three anti-patterns that…
“The Numbers Are Wild”: Anatomy of a LinkedIn Tech Hype Post
A post showed up in my LinkedIn feed last week. It had all the hallmarks: short punchy sentences, each on their own line. Dramatic pauses between claims. A number so impressive it demanded an emoji…
Stop Disabling Foreign Keys: Use a Topological Sort Instead
You inherit a PostgreSQL cleanup script. The very first line is:
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It works. Every table gets wiped clean, no FK errors, no complaints. Then one day somebody adds a new table to the schema,…
The psqlODBC Driver Is Eating Your RAISE NOTICE Messages
I just spent two days debugging a problem where my PowerShell script was logging 900 lines of output instead of 150. The script worked fine for months. Then someone added more tables to the process,…
The Progress Bar That Goes Backwards: A Jetpack Boost Source Code Archaeology
You click “Regenerate Critical CSS.” The progress bar crawls forward: 20%, 30%, 40%. Then it drops to 20%. Climbs back to 50%. Drops to 35%. Eventually it hits 100%, and you exhale. Then it starts…