Channel
Craft
Tools churn. Craft compounds. Drill the skills that outlast any model.
Guardian essay
The Discipline
The craft of the software lifecycle outlasts every tool. Agents now do the work at each stage; the Modern Principal practices the judgment at each gate, in the meetings a team already holds.
Enter the essay →Witnesses
Other essays in this channel
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The Step 2 Gap
A demo is free now. A system is not. The gap between Step 1 and Step 2 is wide, invisible until you try to cross it, and where AI-first work fails silently.
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The Foundation Is Already There
A capstone. The value was never in making software faster; any machine produces artifacts now. It is in recovering the foundation that already exists and honestly wiring to it, with human judgment as the one part that does not automate.
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The Living Curriculum
A companion to The Modern Principal. Naming is how people keep pace with their own tools: why StellarView speaks in metaphor, why a fixed spine of names lets a shared vocabulary grow instead of splitting into Babel, and how the work is taught and handed over.
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StellarView Alpha, part three: ten issues, three passes each, and the branches are stacked
Twelve hours and eighteen minutes, unattended, including two billing stops and a restart. 268 files, 25,857 lines, ten pull requests. CI green through phase eight and red on nine and ten, which we are leaving in.
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There Are No Best Practices For This Yet
The models were trained on decades of work done the hard way. Nobody has written the rules for working alongside them, because almost nobody has been here long enough to lose anything. We have. Part one of the Stella series.
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The Enablement
A client team receives a working enterprise (platform, documentation, support desk, data lake, and a running StellarView each) before any of it is at their risk. The transfer is the last act, not the first.
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Six points of care. None of them held the record.
Youvocate was not designed from a market study. It was built out of one person's own medical record, and the years it took to get an answer out of it. This is that record, driven through the real app.
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The Rings
StellarView draws a codebase as five rings that rotate and pulse. That is for observation, not decoration. Here is the full tour, with the real architecture behind each ring, from GitHub and Confluence.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to StellarView Terminology
Galaxies, Constellations, Cosmic Emissions, Space Dogs, Wormholes, and the Transporter Room. A funny, honest guide to why a development platform sounds like a NASA mission briefing.
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The SDLC Didn't Go Away. It Became the Floor.
The prediction was that AI would kill traditional software craft. The reality is that Git, Jira, Scrum, and code review became the entry requirement, not the advanced pathway. The skills that look the same are now doing different work.
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The 150KB Bug That Wasn't
How a wrong assumption about Claude Code's context limit blocked Miracle for two days. The debugging story, the false fix, and the real lesson about testing your assumptions.
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