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The delete that didn't delete
Three Foxstash releases in four days: encryption at rest, a free lunch that wasn't, a delete that left the data on disk, and a position that wasn't an identity
Oct 18, 20268 min read3
Quiet has to be earned
Two months of building FoxWatch, a PC health monitor that stays silent unless there's something to do, and the five times a quiet result hadn't earned it
Oct 10, 20268 min read
Effects, Actions, and Why Workflow Runtimes Need Side-Effect Boundaries
First published in my LinkedIn newsletter. Corsac is still a work in progress; this describes it as it was then. The annoying part of a workflow runtime isn't running code. It's knowing what code is s
Oct 3, 20269 min read
Why FoxWatch opens to nothing
here's the shell, data comes next
Jul 29, 20265 min read2
Why I'm Building a Typed Workflow Language Instead of Writing Glue Code
Post 1 was the diagnosis: workflow logic keeps wanting to be more structured than ordinary glue code, but less heavy than a full workflow platform. The contract is hiding in the implementation, and th
May 13, 20268 min read
The Workflow Problem That Made Me Stop Trusting Glue Code
A few years ago I watched a webhook handler charge a customer's card twice in the same minute. The success path committed. The retry path committed. They'd been written six months apart by different e
May 7, 20266 min read6

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