Blogs

What I Learned This Week 1. 12-Factor Agents This week I came across the 12-Factor Agents framework by HumanLayer, which adapts the well-known 12-Factor App principles for building robust and maintainable AI agents. Notable principle: Own Your Context Window Rather than sending the full conversation history with each agent interaction, this principle encourages summarizing or explicitly controlling the context that gets passed along. It’s a smart approach for performance and clarity — especially in longer or multi-agent flows. ...

It started with a little knee pain. The kind you tell yourself will go away if you just stretch more, ice it, or ignore it long enough. A couple of years ago, I got into the gym habit — running 4–5 times a week at OrangeTheory Fitness, usually 25–30 minutes on a treadmill as part of high-intensity interval classes. Within a few weeks, I started feeling it in my knees. Naturally, I blamed my shoes. ...

I used to write to learn, to reflect. That’s how I entered the world of Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In my early days, blogging was both my thinking tool and my amplifier. I’d write about what I was learning—Rails conventions, design patterns, developer tools—and through that process, I’d find clarity. I also built connections. People read, commented, shared, and sometimes offered opportunities. That’s how I launched my career. Now I find myself coming back to writing—not because I’m starting something new, but because I’ve been building quietly, and I want to bring a little structure and reflection back into the process. ...