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Engineering notes. Not a blog.

Solving Tool-Dependency Failures with Phase-Based Missions

How I redesigned Goose mission execution so multi-step workflows stay reliable when later tool arguments depend on earlier results.

Solutions Architecture Agent Systems Workflow Orchestration LLM Reliability Scheduler Design Goose

Architecting a Resilient Discord AI Bot: A Solutions Architect Case Study

How I translated product and operational constraints into a reliable Discord + Ollama architecture using queueing, bounded context memory, and defensive runtime controls.

Solutions Architecture System Design Event-Driven Architecture Reliability Engineering Discord.js Ollama

Building a Resilient SPFL Widget Stack

Design notes from building The Wee Table: source-priority ingestion, stale-cache fallback, widget rendering constraints, and reliability-first product behaviour.

I Rebuilt a Game I Wrote 14 Years Ago. Here's What Actually Changed.

This was not a port. It was a productisation pass. A walkthrough of what it actually takes to modernise a legacy mobile game: architecture, lifecycle, input, UI scaling, and a release pipeline that doesn't rely on heroics.

Revisiting My Personal Site After 10 Years

Ten years ago WordPress was the practical default. Today the architecture options are broader, and the right choice depends on operational and content needs.