Notes from the side
Field notes on developer tools, testing, and the occasional side quest.
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- · 7 min read Preview environments for agentic development Agents made code cheap to write, but verification is still laborious. Teaching agents to work with preview environments.
- · 7 min read Extraction Loyalty is a prediction, and Unity, Veeva, and Reddit show what happens to companies that spend it.
- · 3 min read Find my distributed trace AirTags for Datadog APM, or how I stopped guessing where requests go.
- · 8 min read Frontend automation principles: a field guide Patterns I keep reaching for after years of writing browser tests.
- · 8 min read Building a Slack sidekick Targeted alerts and cross-workspace invites without losing your mind.
