Tech Bytes
Engineering notes: pipelines, agents, infrastructure, and whatever I had to figure out the hard way.
- Why I'm building this
A podcast on influence made me realize I'd been telling myself the wrong reason for why I'm building ClimbIQ, and the reason turns out to matter more than I thought.
- Day two is where the time actually goes
A piece on platform engineering made the case that internal tooling should chase the recurring day-to-day friction of running a service, not the one-time setup, and I think it's right.
- Work that matters
Some notes to myself on visibility versus impact, after reading a good piece on picking what to work on.
- AI makes quality worse, just not in the way I expected
AI didn't make me write worse code, it removed the friction that used to push me toward fixing the real problem instead of patching around it.
- Getting my Obsidian vault into Claude's cloud containers
Obsidian Sync is end-to-end encrypted with no public API, and Claude's cloud containers start empty. A config-only repo turned out to be the whole answer.