Building Your Own Tools
Configuration is the tax you pay for not knowing who your user is. It has always been priced into the cost of building software, so we stopped noticing it was there. Build something for exactly one …
Developer Tools
brake: Giving the Consumer a Representative in the Working Tree
An agent decides it is done when the checks it can run come back green. Every one of those checks is a question about the repository it is standing in. The team that generates a client from your …
Tropism: Architecture the Agentic Loop Can Actually Check
Types made “this value is a string” checkable. Tests made behaviour checkable. Nothing ever made “the API layer must not talk to the data layer” checkable — cheaply, across …
facts: Porting Midje's Arrow to Rust
The reading order problem Stock Rust testing is fine, in the sense that a hammer is fine. You get assert!, assert_eq!, assert_ne!, and the #[test] attribute. Everything past that — better diffs, …
bx: Running Local MCP Servers Without a Node or Python Runtime
MCP server configs across the ecosystem default to npx. That quietly forces a Node runtime onto every machine that wants to run a native binary tool. bx is the missing primitive for the other case. I …
Casual-Review: A CLI for Team Code Review Without the Server
Most code review tools want to be a service. The interesting question is what falls out when you refuse to run one — and use git itself as the sync layer instead. I’ve spent the last few weeks …
A Rust-Native Architecture Toolchain: forge, puml, and adoc
A Rust-Native Architecture Toolchain: forge, puml, and adoc Replacing the JVM and Ruby pieces of the architecture documentation stack with single static binaries Most of the tools I reach for when …
Sandboxing AI Coding Agents: Why Isolation Matters
The more context and tools an AI coding agent has access to, the better it performs. But more power means more risk. How do we harness the full capability of AI coding assistants while keeping our …
Exploring Your Backstage Catalog Without Backstage
Exploring Your Backstage Catalog Without Backstage How bsv gives you instant visibility into your software catalog from the terminal Backstage has become the de facto standard for software catalogs. …
Seeing Your Codebase as a City
Seeing Your Codebase as a City Why we need better ways to understand code at scale – and how 3D visualization can help Software teams accumulate code the way cities accumulate buildings. One …