Book: TypeScript in Production Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You have seen the shape of this incident before. A 500 lands in production. The frontend says "checkout failed". The Hono service that owns /checkout called the prici
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed
Every observability vendor has bolted "AI" to their landing page. Half of those features are genuine improvements. The other half are autocomplete in a costume. After a few years of running these tools across enterprise estates, here is where AI-augmented SRE actually pays off, where it doesn't, and what we'd advise teams adopting it today. The single most defensible use case. A medium-sized estat
Iris v0.4.0 ships today. It's the release where protocol-native eval crosses from "deterministic rules" into "semantic scoring" — without giving up any of what made the deterministic layer work. Three headline features plus a lot of infrastructure work that quietly compounds. I'll go through each, why it matters, and how it fits the thesis. Heuristic rules catch a lot: length, keyword overlap, PII