A notebook,
finally open.
Writing on systems, infrastructure, and the agents that finally got me back to the page. Equal parts technical and personal - because the boring stuff is where the real opinions live.
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Yoda · writes, breaks things, then writes about it.
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№ 001 — Latest dispatch
The Framework Borrows From BDD. Here Is Where It Deliberately Departs.
Both Cucumber and the framework I built descend from a readable spec into code. The departures are in how the document binds to that code, how much it holds on its own, and what it was built to test.
Describe a system where readable documents execute as tests and someone says: that is Cucumber. Fair. The framework which I am developing descends into code the same way Gherkin does, so the real differences are narrower and sharper.
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Earlier pieces
2 entries
The Test Document Is the Test
Why I collapsed the test plan and the test code into one file, and why that is an architecture decision rather than a tooling preference.
Jun 8, 2026
5 min
A quiet argument for boring infrastructure
Postgres, a single VM, and the patience to be unfashionable
Jun 6, 2026
1 min