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Featured image of post A Good Cloud Diagram Should Expose Trust Boundaries
Azure Architecture

A Good Cloud Diagram Should Expose Trust Boundaries

A useful Azure reference architecture is less about listing services and more about making trust boundaries, entry points, and data paths obvious.

May 28, 2026
4 minute read
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Observability Platform Engineering

API Dashboards Are Only Useful If They Change Decisions

Traffic charts become useful when they help engineering, support, and product decide what to investigate, fix, or explain next.

May 21, 2026
4 minute read
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Ai Design

Prompting for Product Marketing, Not Just Pretty Pictures

What iterative AI image prompting taught me about generating usable enterprise visuals instead of generic AI art.

May 14, 2026
4 minute read
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Software Delivery Leadership

Process Redesign Only Works When Ownership Gets Clearer

A delivery process does not improve because the diagram looks cleaner. It improves when ownership, handoffs, and the definition of done become harder to misread.

May 07, 2026
5 minute read
Featured image of post Building a Microsoft To Do CLI and Wiring It into OpenClaw
Agentic AI Platform Engineering Build in Public

Building a Microsoft To Do CLI and Wiring It into OpenClaw

How I built a TypeScript CLI for Microsoft To Do in a single session with Copilot, packaged it with GitHub Actions, and integrated it as a shared OpenClaw skill so every agent can manage my task lists.

Apr 16, 2026
7 minute read
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Agentic AI Platform Engineering Build in Public

How I Configured Five AI Agents on One Microsoft Teams Bot

How I expanded my OpenClaw gateway from two agents to five, routed each to its own Teams channel, and discovered why RSC permissions matter more than config files.

Apr 12, 2026
7 minute read
Featured image of post Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: What It Means If You're Already Building These Things
Agentic AI Platform Engineering

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: What It Means If You're Already Building These Things

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 just went GA. Here's what actually matters in it: stable APIs, A2A, declarative definitions, and what it still doesn't answer for you.

Apr 09, 2026
6 minute read
Featured image of post Why My OpenClaw Reminders Weren't Reaching Signal or Teams
Agentic AI Automation Platform Engineering

Why My OpenClaw Reminders Weren't Reaching Signal or Teams

A small routing detail broke OpenClaw reminder delivery in exactly the wrong place. Here's how I traced it, fixed same-channel delivery, and stopped the agent from claiming success when scheduling had actually failed.

Apr 04, 2026
7 minute read
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Agentic AI Platform Engineering Build in Public

How I Split OpenClaw into Main and Personal Agents

How I split OpenClaw into main and personal agents, gave them separate workspaces, and routed Signal and Teams differently so the system felt more natural to live with.

Apr 03, 2026
4 minute read
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Behind the Work Career Reflection

The Silent Excellence Trap: Why Good Work Gets Invisible in Big Organizations

Why complex enabling work often disappears in large organizations, and why I now think of visibility as part of delivery rather than as a political side quest.

Mar 25, 2026
4 minute read
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