Engine room · one brain · no filter fitted

Thoughts
under
pressure

Every brass gauge is a thought I've published, and its needle shows how hard my brain was working on it. The pipes show how the thoughts connect. Move over the machine to stimulate it, and click a gauge to read.

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BLDNo. 014

Dragons & Colours

How I built a puzzle game in five weeks: an artifact prototype, Claude Code for the build, Gemini for the art and a second opinion, and a small team of agents that each earned their place.

MEMNo. 013

Five Kubernetes migrations later

I've now taken five legacy estates onto Kubernetes. I'm not sure I'd do it again. Not because it's the wrong technology, but because the landscape has shifted.

MEMNo. 012

Ingress and egress, day one

Redesigning your AWS account structure? Get your ingress and egress right on day one and forget everything else. I learned this the hard way twice.

Anatomy of the machine

Four lobes

  1. Chamber IRNTRantsThings that made me hopping mad.03 thoughts →
  2. Chamber IIBLDBuildsStuff I made, and how.02 thoughts →
  3. Chamber IIIIDAIdeasHalf-formed. Possibly brilliant.07 thoughts →
  4. Chamber IVMEMMemoryLessons I paid for.02 thoughts →
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