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A decade of shaping teams, and the book that made sense of it
How reading Team Topologies gave me a framework for patterns I’d seen across a decade of building software teams. I recently read Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. It's one of those books where you keep nodding as you read, recognising patte…
IDMerit's 3 Billion Record Breach: How Your Federal ID Ended Up On The Dark Web
TL;DR IDMerit, the identity verification contractor trusted by banks, government agencies, and enterprises, accidentally exposed 3 billion records in an unsecured cloud database. The exposed data includes names, dates of birth, national IDs, government verifi…
FAQ: Supply-Chain Attacks — 10 Questions You're Asking (And Answers That Matter)
TL;DR Supply-chain attacks have grown 300% in 3 years because they're simple: attackers compromise the software your team trusts, then compromise everything downstream. GhostLoader proved it March 9. Here are the 10 questions every developer and CISO is askin…
Memory System v2: Solving the Context Bloat Problem
In our last post on building a persistent memory system, we described the MEMORY.md bloat problem: after six weeks, the file had grown to over 700 lines, and we fixed it by switching from inline content to pointer-based entries. The fix worked. MEMORY.md got …
5 days to build the app, 1 month to publish it: I survived Google Play and I have proof
AI-assisted development really is a new era. Not hype — actual, measurable results. What used to require a team of three or four people — design, back-end, front-end, that one guy who knows Figma — one person can now deliver alone. As long as they have coffee…
Debian Linux Complete Guide 2026: From Installation to Production Server
Debian is one of the most stable and trusted Linux distributions used in servers, cloud platforms, and infrastructure around the world. Many popular systems, including other Linux distributions, build directly on top of Debian. But for beginners, getting star…
Enforcing voice and tone with Claude Code hooks
An AI agent writes fluent prose. It also writes whatever you ask for. Tell it to add a hero section and it will produce "We're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge solutions." Tell it to write an FAQ answer and it will open with "Great question!" Neither …
How to Build a Custom MCP Tool in Under 10 Min
Your AI agent can browse the web, read files, and call APIs. But what if you need it to query your database or call your internal service? That's where custom MCP tools come in. MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets you expose any Python function as a tool that A…
How to Build a REST API in Zig (Using Spider Web Framework)
In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of the Spider Web Framework by creating a simple REST API with full CRUD operations. In this article: Step 1: Project Setup Step 2: Basic Server Step 3: PostgreSQL Setup Step 4: Connect Spider to PostgreSQL Step 5: CR…
I Built an Open-Source CLI That Diagnoses Production Incidents in 30 Seconds — Looking for Contributors
Every engineer who's been on-call knows the drill. It's 3 AM. PagerDuty goes off. You open your laptop, squint at CloudWatch, start grepping through thousands of log lines, flip over to GitHub to check if anyone deployed recently, then paste everything into a…
How Thinking in UX Forces You to Build Better UI — Even If You're Not a Designer
Most developers I know can explain the difference between good and bad code instantly. Clean abstractions, clear naming, separation of concerns — they have a vocabulary for it and an instinct for it. Ask those same developers to explain why their app looks th…
The Misconceptions of Tech Work | The Future of Work in Africa
On February 12, 2026, I had the privilege of being a guest on the 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 with 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶. The episode is titled: “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 | 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖.” The interview has since been published, and you can watch i…