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Notes on backend engineering, industrial protocols, and developer tooling.

Claude Code hooks: turning written rules into ones the agent can't skip
26 Oct 2026
My Claude Code setup ignored its written rules, so I measured how often and moved the costly ones into hooks. What the data showed and the hook that blocked me.
- claude-code
- hooks
- ai-agents
- developer-tools
SNMP with Python: lessons from building a device monitor
26 Oct 2026
SNMP with pysnmp on data-center devices: the walk flag that stops at the table, timeout maths, one reused engine (1.8 ms vs 235 ms per GET) and MIBs as JSON.
- snmp
- python
- pysnmp
- monitoring
- dcim
Building an orchestration layer for Claude Code: an honest retrospective
18 Jun 2026
I wanted 5–10 agents working in parallel. It launched one, burned far more tokens, and the skills wouldn't load. What went wrong, why, and the flow I use now.
- claude-code
- ai-agents
- orchestration
- developer-tools
- retrospective