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keelA map of what your project actually exposes
Onboarding to a codebase produces a knowledge base you read. What nobody had was something you look at — one picture that says: he…
Sep 30, 2026· 2 min read· 1
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keelYour stack is a file, not a fork
For a long time keel had a sentence at the top of its README that quietly limited it: an enforced workflow for a Kotlin + Spring B…
Sep 30, 2026· 3 min read· 1
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keelA console that refuses first and acts second
The keel dashboard was read-only. Adding a console to it — call an endpoint, read the database, run a command — is the first write…
Sep 30, 2026· 2 min read· 3
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keelDiagrams you can actually push around
The diagrams were pictures. A map wider than the screen could only be read by scrolling the page, and nothing on it could be moved…
Sep 30, 2026· 3 min read· 4
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keelAsk about any project, from any session
If you run more than one project, the question you actually have is rarely about the repo you're sitting in. It's "is anything wai…
Sep 30, 2026· 2 min read· 1
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AI & LLMsThe genie effect
I gave a coding agent a boring task: check that my server actually accepts the auth header the client is sending. One instruction…
Sep 4, 2026· 9 min read· 2
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AI & LLMsWhy I stopped letting the coding agent build the whole feature before I look at it
There is a specific moment where AI-assisted development goes wrong, and it is not the moment people expect. It is not the agent w…
Sep 3, 2026· 7 min read· 2
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JavaZPL Label Viewer — stop printing labels to find out they're wrong
The debug loop for shipping labels is the worst one I've worked in. You change a coordinate in a ZPL template. To find out whether…
Aug 21, 2026· 4 min read· 1
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Javazpl-renderer — turning printer code into pixels, with no printer
If you've ever written the backend for anything that ships a physical parcel, you've met ZPL — Zebra Programming Language. It's th…
Aug 21, 2026· 4 min read· 3