August 2026
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Conexus 7.6.1: the road from 5.0
Eighty-three releases in eleven weeks. The short version: the entire storage substrate was replaced under a running system, upgrades collapsed to one command, the agent workflow layer went from written convention to enforced mechanism, and the system learned to tell the truth about its own failures. Upgrading is the same as it has been since… Continue reading
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On the Cycling of the Firm
Unsurprisingly, like any Individual Contributor, I have accumulated a lot of theories of management. Given my now 4+ decades of doing this stuff, I’ve also managed to run ad hoc experiments on my hypotheses and always made a point to observe and collect data where I could. It’s been a useful distraction and, as I… Continue reading