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I’m super proud of the Outer Rim Productions team and our 2023 Z-Fest submission MacGuffin that won best picture!
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Two posts crossed my feed the same week — one a 248,000-PR study, one a reflection on how we used to build — and they told the same story from opposite ends: AI didn’t lower the bar on code quality. We stopped holding it there. The discipline still works. You just have to ask for it.
Nobody Changed the Code. It Still Broke.
A production Lambda started crashing on startup with no code change behind it. The cause was a three-way collision between a new AWS runtime, an old bundled library, and a routine dependency upgrade — and the fix is a one-line lesson in scoping what you scan.
AI Made Building Free. Your Org Still Has a Speed Limit.
The sequel to “It Moved the Constraint.” Building is nearly free now, but organizations still absorb change at a stubbornly human rate — and Goldratt told us forty years ago what to do about a bottleneck you can’t code past.
Camping at Leech Lake — June 2026
Two cool, cloudy nights at Leech Lake with Jayson, Echo, and Dee OhGee — a spotless Corps of Engineers campground, some off-road forest trails up toward Lake Winnie, a balky stove, and a menu that rearranged itself on the fly.