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This site is the case. jessejamesrichard.com is registered elsewhere, built in the console, hosted on Giant Context, and served over HTTPS on its own ...

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Feb 23, 2026
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#Testing
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A platform this size, run by one person, keeps working through three test suites that never overlap. Unit checks the logic, integration checks the who...

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Feb 22, 2026
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Every customer domain resolves to the same load balancer IP, and a router reads the Host header to decide which site it is. That lookup is the tenant ...

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Feb 19, 2026
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#AI & Agents

Finding the name is how I work out whether I understand the thing I am about to build. A name draws a boundary before any code exists, then steers eve...

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Feb 17, 2026
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#Data
#AI & Agents
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I skipped localization to prove the product first, and I cannot tell you what the retrofit cost because it never had a boundary. Here is how to do it ...

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Feb 12, 2026
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A few times a day I push code, and twenty minutes later it is running live and confirmed healthy, untouched by me in between. What a bad deploy costs ...

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Feb 11, 2026
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Two years of production on Azure, then a platform built on Google Cloud from its first commit. The vendor-specific layer takes weeks to learn and the ...

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Feb 7, 2026
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A permission model that is almost right is wrong, so this one is borrowed from the giants. Action grammar from Amazon, resource hierarchy from Google,...

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Feb 5, 2026
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#Data
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Every tracked event gained a trace id and a token count, which answers why a request was slow and what it cost from one row. The larger consequence is...

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Feb 3, 2026
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An API endpoint with no test beside it does not exist, as far as the platform is concerned. The generator that builds the route tables looks for a sib...

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Jan 27, 2026
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