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🔒 Lock Folder Util — The Mutex Your Agent Swarm Desperately Needs

Twelve Agents. One Resource. Zero Supervision. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? You know that moment when you finally parallelise your agent fleet and watch with pride as twelve subagents sprint off to do the work of a whole team... straight into the same shared resource. Maybe it is the one licensed tool seat. Maybe it is the office coffee machine you told everyone could "handle concurrent requests". Maybe you set a dozen agents loose to find the funniest cat picture on the internet, and they al

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Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path

Hello World 🖖. I will be starting a series journaling my learning journey towards acquiring my Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate. Let's get into it. A Cloud Engineer plans, configures, sets up, and deploys cloud solutions. The Associate Cloud Engineer Certification provides the practical skills required for this role, preparing you to successfully manage enterprise solutions on Google Cloud. In order for the learning to be more engaging, retained, and shareable, Google was intuitive e

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The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It

I graded 18 dated AI predictions from the last two years against what actually happened. The scoreboard is brutal, and the one guy who scored well got nothing for it. In March 2025, Dario Amodei told the Council on Foreign Relations that AI would be writing 90% of code within three to six months, and essentially all of it within twelve. That twelve-month deadline passed in March. Almost nobody went back to check. That is the strange etiquette of AI forecasting. The predictions are loud, dated, a

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How I Decide a RAXXO Tool Needs a Redesign, Not a Patch

I track three signals before I touch a shipped RAXXO tool's core screens again A patch fixes one report, a redesign answers the same complaint from four different users in a month The kill switch buys me the room to redesign without breaking anyone mid session I never touch export formats or saved URLs during a redesign, only the screens around them The Line Between a Patch and a Redesign Every RAXXO tool gets bug reports. Most of them are patches. A button that does not resp

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Indexing Like a Jedi: How I Tamed My Database

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was building a tiny rate‑limiter for a side‑project API. The idea was simple: every request writes a row with user_id and requested_at (a timestamp) into a rate_limit_log table, and before allowing the request we count how many rows exist for that user in the last minute. If the count exceeds the limit we reject the request. At first it felt like a breeze. I threw together a quick migration, wrote the query, and hit “run”. The first few requests flew by—until t

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Separating the Idea, State, and Artifact Planes in Agent Pipelines

The agent worked. The architecture didn't. This failure mode won't show up in your eval suite. An AI architect builds a personal automation pipeline: an agent scouts trending content, pipes ideas into a chat thread, he reacts, things get logged. The agent did its job. It found the trends, wrote them down, and responded when he asked it to. He killed it anyway, and not over hallucination or token cost. He killed it because everything lived in "a flat scroll of messages. No structure, no views,

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An unlikely experiment

There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble around some of that codebase (even if you don't understand much) you might see an interesting pattern littered throughout: if (unlikely(condition_that_does_not_happen_much)) { // do thing } else { // do more common thing } What is this mysterious unlikely? Why do we need to tell the computer that something is unlikely, and what does that ev

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Officially: farewell to Linear, Jira, and Trello 🚀

It's a Plan - the open-source tracker where humans and AI agents share one board. Your server, your database, your model keys. AGPL-3.0, no seats, no lock-in. / itsaplan Open-source project management and issue tracking, with AI agents built in Self-hosted, open-source project management and issue tracking, and an alternative to Linear Plane, and Jira. The difference: AI agents work here like any teammate. Hand them issues, or run the whole thing over the REST API, webho

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