Software-Engineering

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software-engineering · Sep 26 · 13 min

A /readyz 200 Through a Postgres Blip Is Not a Healthy Store

A green /readyz is not proof Postgres is healthy. Print the ready status, the store probe, and the named gateway owner before you file an all-clear.

software-engineering · Sep 21 · 13 min

Handing the Hostname to the Forward Proxy Is Not a Missing Host

A failed local DNS lookup on a Claude apps gateway pod is not a missing host when the pod only talks through a forward proxy. Print the env, read the boot network line, and name who owns proxy-only egress.

software-engineering · Sep 17 · 14 min

A Client That Still Sends Initialize Is Not a Broken Laravel MCP Server

An old MCP client that still opens with initialize is a handshake the new Laravel server still answers, not a dead 1.0 package. Print the method, the pin, and the named owner before you file the server.

software-engineering · Sep 6 · 12 min

An Issues Tab Is Not a Laravel Package Ticket

GitHub Issues are off on most Laravel packages. The ticket is a pull request that documents the bug, with a named owner. laravel/framework Issues stay on.

software-engineering · Aug 30 · 11 min

Five Things I Refused This Week

A ranked cheat-sheet of five desk rules from this week: who pins the model, what .gitignore does not lock, who merges, who retries, and who still reads the diff.

ai-agents · Jun 19 · 13 min

Long-Running AI Agents — From Demos to Production

A long-running coding agent can stay green after it changes directory. Production still needs a sandbox that survives /cd, a budget that counts nested work, and a human who owns both.