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Recent Posts

• Beads: issue tracking for agent work

  5 May, 2026

  My notes on using Beads/bd as an issue tracker for AI-assisted coding

• How I migrated this blog to Astro with Codex

  24 Apr, 2026 (updated 28 Apr, 2026)

  Notes on migrating the old Hugo article archive into this Astro blog together with Codex, with bd as the task tracker and guardrail.

• JWTs in 2026: useful, but not a default

  10 Jan, 2026

  Practical notes on when JWT access tokens make sense, how to validate them, and when opaque tokens are the simpler architecture.

• Architecture Decision Records: A Tool for Experienced Engineers

  8 Feb, 2025

  Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are lightweight documents that capture architectural decisions along with their context and consequences. Why should Engineering Teams combine ADRs with the Advice Process.