Webframp

A manifesto

Promise theory described agents that observe, reason, and commit.

Four fixes into a DynamoDB sync backend, the ceiling kept moving: from a hot GSI partition to lock contention to catalog metadata no datastore could outrun.

A load test that briefly knocked out Swamp's telemetry pipeline, and what it took for that to read as curiosity instead of an attack.

Two extensions covering the same domain means the ecosystem is growing.

Zero API calls.

The LLM does not create the thinking gap.

Declarations were scaffolding for blind agents.

The governance you know is the governance you repeat.

Deming told us.

What a development system looks like when you build it to keep yourself honest

A sandbox that teaches swamp, managed by swamp

What changes when your agent can observe reality instead of reading your notes about it

Sequential pipelines assume humans waiting in sequence.

Agent state that follows you, then your team

The design space that opens when you stop thinking in domains

Your team's workflow and your agent's lifecycle want different things

Encoding judgment the agent lacks into AWS operations

Mechanical friction is dissolving, but do not mistake easy for simple

Using SparkleFormation registries with arguments to build reusable, platform-aware CloudFormation init configurations.

A beginner's whirlwind tour of SparkleFormation, stumbling through VPC creation, AMI hunting and CloudFormation stack updates.

Installing OpenBSD to an SD card from a MacBook Air using VirtualBox raw disk access.

Setting up Notmuch with offlineimap and msmtp for fast, searchable email in Emacs on OS X.

How to fix Shift-Meta key combinations in Emacs running inside iTerm2 on OS X by mapping raw escape codes.

A quick awk one-liner to populate cookbook_versions in a Chef environment file.

A script for splitting a monolithic Chef cookbooks repo into individual repos using git filter-branch and hub.

Reflections on why coding literacy matters for everyone, inspired by David Mitchell's comparison of code to Latin.

Notes on the Opscode community effort to split the monolithic cookbooks repo into individual cookbook repos.

Day two of the Opscode Summit, featuring the big announcement of Hosted Chef moving from Ruby+NoSQL to Erlang+MySQL.

Highlights from day one of the Opscode Community Summit, an unconference celebrating the Chef community.