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Invariant checks: the comment is the check you never wrote.
Twelve days ago I built a check that reads my company standards and asserts that every enforcement mechanism they name actually exists as code. Pointed at the repository where those standards are writ
Aug 31, 202613 min read
My retro proposed three fixes and built none of them. Its health check read fine the whole time.
Last Sunday I published a post about the agent fleet that builds my backlog. It ended with a section called "What I have not run," in which I said the retrospective pass was designed, was accepted, an
Aug 24, 202614 min read2
How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.
A feature makes money. A check protects it. Those are not the same job, and the difference is why checks rot. When you ship a feature, the market tells you fast whether it works. Someone signs up or t
Jul 31, 20266 min read
I audited 2,864 CI checks. Several had never run, and green never told me.
Someone on Hacker News asked a one-line question about the security checks I run on every PR: how often do those checks actually hold your PRs back? I didn't know. That bothered me more than it should
Jul 30, 202610 min read