Take soundings before you ship
We decide every week whether a release is safe to ship. Soundings is the Claude Code plugin I built to answer that: release, manual review, or no-go.
Recent posts
Turn an AI you can’t trust into one you can
You can’t unit-test an AI. Notes from a month of building evals instead.
Which 80% of Claude Code are you missing?
AI Mentor is a Claude Code plugin that finds the capabilities you don’t know exist and teaches them one at a time, grounded in your real repo.
Claude Code plugins and the trust nobody talks about
The official Claude Code docs describe SHA pinning as a feature but never explain why it matters. This post does, and walks through a release pipeline built...
Your Claude bill called. It wants to talk.
10 practices to cut your Claude bill, ranked by impact. Score yourself as you read.
Turn AI friction into better docs
An experiment using automated friction capture to continuously improve AI context docs, fixing both codebase drift and gaps in initially generated content.
The docs your AI agent is missing
A Claude Code skill that builds the context docs your AI agent needs, backed by research on how LLMs process context.
Teaching Claude Code skills to improve themselves
A simple instruction you can append to your Claude Code skills to make them suggest improvements to themselves and your project docs.
Easing the maintenance of Konflux build pipelines
Maintaining Konflux pipelines doesn’t have to be a pain. I’ve got a few tips to help you out.
Why is my PostgreSQL query so slow?! Let’s fix it!
PostgreSQL is pretty smart at running queries, but sometimes it needs a little help to hit top speed.
Pausing Kafka at run time with Quarkus
Learn how the PausableChannel API from SmallRye Reactive Messaging can help you pause the consumption of Kafka messages at run time in a Quarkus app.
Blogging on GitHub Pages with minimal effort
Thinking about starting a blog but worried it’s too time-consuming? Learn how to launch a fully functional blog on GitHub Pages and post with minimal effort.
Delaying exceptions while looping in Java
Learn how to propagate exceptions thrown from a loop without breaking that loop.
Overriding the configuration of a Quarkus app from its test code
Increase your test coverage by overriding the configuration of your Quarkus app from its test code.
Changing the Quarkus loggers level from Unleash
Updating an environment variable to change a logger level can sometimes be slow. What if you could change that level immediately with Unleash?
Using Qute with templates from a database
We moved our Qute templates from the file storage to a database to improve the tenants experience in a multitenant Quarkus app.