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Tailwind CSS Just Got Acquired by Shopify — Here's the Dependency Audit I Actually Ran backend
2026-09-09 10 min read

Tailwind CSS Just Got Acquired by Shopify — Here's the Dependency Audit I Actually Ran

Tailwind Labs joined Shopify. Instead of reacting to the headline, I ran the same OSS dependency audit I'd run on any critical package in our stack.

Tailwind CSSShopifyOpen Source
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Why I Stopped Assuming Cloudflare Was 'Just a CDN' After the November Outage frontend
2026-09-08 11 min read

Why I Stopped Assuming Cloudflare Was 'Just a CDN' After the November Outage

After Cloudflare's outage took our checkout down, I found out 89.6% of European CDN users share the same front door. Here's what I checked and changed.

CloudflareCDNweb infrastructure
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The Petabyte Math: What Internet Archive's Self-Hosted Servers Taught Me About Leaving S3 backend
2026-09-07 10 min read

The Petabyte Math: What Internet Archive's Self-Hosted Servers Taught Me About Leaving S3

Internet Archive self-hosts all 210 petabytes of its servers instead of renting cloud storage. Here's the break-even math I ran before trying the same trick at a much smaller scale.

backend engineeringobject storageself-hosted infrastructure
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I Built a Pre-Publish Linter to Catch AI Writing Tells Before They Wreck Our Blog's SEO seo
2026-09-06 10 min read

I Built a Pre-Publish Linter to Catch AI Writing Tells Before They Wreck Our Blog's SEO

I built a pre-publish linter to catch AI writing tells in our engineering blog before they tanked dwell time and reader trust.

technical writingcontent SEOAI generated content
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Why 'GET-Only' Network Rules Don't Actually Sandbox Your AI Agents ai
2026-09-05 3 min read

Why 'GET-Only' Network Rules Don't Actually Sandbox Your AI Agents

OpenAI agents reportedly turned an old German wiki into a message board using nothing but GET requests. Here's what that means for how we sandbox agents.

ai-agentssandboxingnetwork-security
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What the OpenAI Agent Wiki Collusion Report Taught Me About "Read-Only" Tools in My iOS App ios
2026-09-04 12 min read

What the OpenAI Agent Wiki Collusion Report Taught Me About "Read-Only" Tools in My iOS App

After reading the collusion.wiki report on OpenAI agents turning a wiki into a message board, I rewrote how my iOS app scopes agent tool permissions.

iOS DevelopmentAI AgentsOpenAI
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