Vol. IEst. 2026Live from the desk

A notebook,
finally open.

Writing on systems, infrastructure, and the agents that finally got me back to the page. Equal parts technical and personal - because the boring stuff is where the real opinions live.

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Yoda · writes, breaks things, then writes about it.

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systems · agents · the craft of small teams.

Why I built a hardware test automation framework

№ 001 — Latest dispatch

Why I built a hardware test automation framework

I collapsed the test plan, the test code and infrastructure into one framework, one file.

Most test plans are fiction the code stopped honouring months ago. I made the document the test. It can't lie now.

Jun 9, 20266 min
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The archive

Earlier pieces

01

A quiet argument for boring infrastructure

Postgres, a single VM, and the patience to be unfashionable

systemspostgrescraft