Works On My Machine

Notes from inside developer platforms. IDP, CI/CD, DX, and the gaps between them.

21 Apr 2026

GitHub Cloud Agents Work When You Build the Feedback Loop

After 3-4 days of bad PRs, I learned the hard part of using a GitHub Cloud Agent isn't the prompt — it's the environment, hooks, and validation layers that tell the agent whether it actually succeeded.

22 Mar 2026

How I Turned My Obsidian Vault Into a Queryable Second Brain

The problem with notes that hold knowledge but fail at retrieval, and the local-first RAG system I built to fix it.