How many times have you been blocked waiting for backend APIs to be ready? Or spent hours maintaining brittle mock data that becomes stale the moment requirements change?
Enter mostlylucid.mockllmapi...
Saturday, 13 December 2025 14:30
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14 minute read
A tiny primitive that turns concurrent work into a coordinated, adaptive system.
"The Ephemeral Signals Pattern"
In Part 1 we built ephemeral execution - bounded, private, self-cleaning async...
Friday, 12 December 2025 16:00
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22 minute read
In Part 1: Fire and Don't Quite Forget, we explored the theory behind ephemeral execution - bounded, private, debuggable async workflows that remember just enough to be useful and then evaporate.
This...
Friday, 12 December 2025 14:00
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13 minute read
Most async systems either remember too much (logs, queues, persisted junk you never wanted)… or they remember nothing at all (fire-and-forget black holes that vanish the moment something goes...
Friday, 12 December 2025 12:00
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15 minute read
Most systems degrade when overloaded. Memory fills up, queries slow down, users complain, servers crash.
A few unusual ones get better.
This article shows how an LRU-based behavioural memory becomes...
Tuesday, 09 December 2025 12:00
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19 minute read
Most software architectures assume the system is static. DiSE assumes the system is alive.
Note: This is Part 4 in the "Cooking with DiSE" series. See Part 1, Part 2: Graduated Apprenticeships, and...
Monday, 08 December 2025 12:00
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15 minute read
Scrapers are about to start using AI to mimic real users - so I built a bot detector that learns, adapts, and fights back.
Key concept: Behavioural Routing. This enables a new category — where...
Monday, 08 December 2025 07:00
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13 minute read
By someone who can't stop analysing patterns, even their own.
As the category says, this is a far more personal essay than my usual work. I don't mind if you skip it...but if it resonates leave a...
Sunday, 07 December 2025 12:00
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10 minute read
PostgreSQL's ltree extension gives you materialised paths with database-native superpowers: GiST indexes, specialised operators like @> and <@, and powerful pattern matching. If you're committed to...
Saturday, 06 December 2025 09:50
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15 minute read
Nested sets encode the entire tree structure into just two integers per node - Left and Right boundaries from a depth-first walk. Finding all descendants becomes a simple range query, and ORDER BY...
Saturday, 06 December 2025 09:40
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16 minute read
