Journal

Thoughts, ideas, and explorations on design and technology.

Featured August 6, 2026

Journal 02: Designing the Pipeline Codex Couldn’t

A caching failure revealed that a working AWS deployment was not a release system—and led to a versioned pipeline with simple promotion and rollback.

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Aug 6

A caching failure revealed that a working AWS deployment was not a release system—and led to a versioned pipeline with simple promotion and rollback.

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Jul 31

Introducing Figma into Vibing Risk exposed a third kind of state between server state and screen UI—and led to a new controller layer.

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May 27 4 min read

Vibing Risk made AI-assisted development feel possible, but the first real constraint was not code quality. It was the budget.

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May 12 3 min read

Vibing Risk is an experiment in directing AI to build a multiplayer strategy game and learning where that approach works.

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Jan 15

The story behind LithyLabs

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