A cartoon phone buried under an avalanche of identical notification bubbles while a calm correlator gadget sorts them into one incident and one recovery.

Quiet Alerts Are an Engineering Product

A system sent hundreds of versions of the same warning and proved that notification volume is not the same thing as safety.

November 9, 2026 · 3 min · 473 words · Justin
A cartoon dashboard full of smiling green lights beams proudly while an empty printer tray beside it looks on in confusion.

Proof, Not Green Lights

APIs, queues, processes, builds, and dashboards kept telling me yes to questions I had not actually asked.

November 7, 2026 · 3 min · 489 words · Justin
A cartoon data pipeline conveyor belt where a goofy malformed spreadsheet row wearing a 2099 date tag is gently escorted into a glowing quarantine pod while tidy rows march on.

Bad Rows Go to Quarantine

One malformed record should become one visible exception, not a reason to poison or stop an entire daily import.

November 3, 2026 · 3 min · 470 words · Justin