Two series, counted separately. Signal is what we defend: privacy, data destruction, key custody, verification and trust. Insight is how we build: engineering craft, product decisions, the things a small team learns shipping real software.
Every piece here contains at least one specific, checkable thing. If a claim cannot survive being looked up, it does not go out under this masthead.
The new marketing stack removed the dependencies. It also removed the people who used to catch our mistakes. By Ramzi Hobeishy.
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Google Antigravity wrote a report on itself. Claude Code fact checked every claim. Antigravity accepted every correction it reviewed, and got two details wrong doing it.
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What changed in Google's coding agent, what pushed it, and how it compares with Cursor, Claude Code, Devin and GitHub Copilot.
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An agent that acts needs credentials. It almost never needs to see them. Let it request an action, never a value.
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Every job platform reports how many roles it showed you. The number that matters is how many you could actually accept, and moving it is unglamorous engineering.
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A hash chain proves the middle of a log was not changed. It cannot prove the end is still there. Only a copy of the last line, held by someone the writer cannot reach, can do that.
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A model cannot read ciphertext. So the useful question about a confidential file is not whether it is readable at the model, but what in it is readable there, and whose it is.
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Identity, intent and ownership all fail at the first handoff. Why the structure can wait and the record cannot.
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What actually happens when you delete a file, and why almost every promise that data was destroyed is made on faith.
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Mode errors are a design defect no bug tracker will ever record, because every instance looks like user error.
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The secret is never stored anywhere. It is the answer to an arithmetic question that needs a quorum to ask.
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A vault that only exists on one phone is one dropped phone away from being gone.
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