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GitHub: github.com/andrewbakercloudscale/claude-burst (MIT licensed, macOS). Clone it, run ./install.sh, open the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7788. Claude Code has no native pauseless compaction mode: its own /compact, and the automatic compaction it…
Most of the security stack we buy is built to recognise things that have already been seen somewhere else, which is exactly why it struggles with zero days: a signature…
Why loving firmness works better than harshness at work, and why harsh organisations slowly go blind 1. A Sentence That Belongs in Every Boardroom I recently watched a short clip…
Java 27 went GA on 15 September 2026 with nine JEPs, and if you skim the release notes you’d be forgiven for shrugging. Five of those nine are still preview…
September 18, 2026 · Andrew Baker 1. Why central guardrails, not guidelines Most public AWS breaches are not exotic. They are the same handful of mistakes recurring across different companies,…
How CIOs Rebuild Trust After Repeated Technology Failure 1. The symptom, and what sits underneath it When you walk into a technology area that has lived through repeated instability, failed…
1. Two different questions, and only one of them is being answered Before assessing whether a three day cooldown is a good idea, it is worth being precise about what…
Update, 21 September 2026: four days after publishing I built this design into my own tooling, ran it for a day on real work, and switched it off. The guard…
The problem is often not what was said. It is the intention we invented behind it. Feedback is one of the few tools that can genuinely make us better at…
If AI Means You No Longer Hire Juniors, You Are Doing AI Wrong I recently read TechCentral’s article, “South African tech juniors squeezed as AI reshapes hiring.” It describes a…
