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What I learn building workflows, written up with the part that could fail.
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The plugin that changed hands
A plugin you trust gets a new owner. The next update says compatibility and adds a call home. Sightread reads the update before you install it.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
The staging copy with the live Stripe key
A plain copy of production hands staging every customer and the live keys. Roadie makes the copy safe, then checks it and signs a pass or fail report.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
What Claude Code rereads on every turn
Claude Code sends its whole context with every request. tacet, my open source tool, trims what it loads and reads: 40% cheaper in its benchmark, same answers.
- AI in production
- Workflows
- Workflows
The .env file anyone could download
The worst leaks on a PHP site are files anyone can download: a .env, a config backup, a debug log. Tuner finds them from outside and masks the secrets.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
The update that broke the contact form
After a plugin update every page loads and looks the same, while the form and a button quietly stopped working. Soundcheck checks the whole site before and after.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
What your staging site really sends
A staging copy of a shop still knows every customer. Echo seals it so nothing reaches real people, then shows what each form and order sends after an update.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
Know before your clients do
The quiet failures a client finds first. Why I turned my after-update checks into free, open-source tools.
- Reliability
- Workflows
- Workflows
ImmiIQ: a migration practice in one place
Migration agents ran their practice across government sites, spreadsheets and paper. ImmiIQ puts it in one place and keeps the agent in charge of every decision.
- Case study
- Workflows
- Workflows
A 401 and a blurry receipt
A pipeline that never throws can hide an outage inside the review queue. Keep the never-throw design and make every failure carry its reason.
- AI in production
- Reliability
- Human in the loop
- Reliability, Human in the loop
The dumbest check I trust most
One wrong fact in an AI draft and I throw the whole draft away. Retrying until it passes ships wrong numbers that look right.
- AI in production
- Human in the loop
- Reliability
- Human in the loop, Reliability
The navigation that never lands
A lost Suspense ping can leave a click pending forever. How to tell if you are hit, how to patch it and when to retire the patch.
- Reliability
- Architecture
- Architecture
What happens when this fails?
The question I ask of every system before it goes live. Break an invoice run four ways and watch what a good answer does.
- Workflows
- Reliability
- Architecture
- Reliability, Architecture