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GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History (5 minute read)

GitHub Actions went into a major outage yesterday. Webhook triggers were throttled, so pushes and pull requests quietly don't start anything at all. Runners were being handed jobs that no longer existed. Both hosted and self-hosted were affected. GitHub's record outages show that the platform is growing faster than it can handle.

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I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.

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Aug 07 | It

Surprise AI costs threaten enterprise implementations (4 minute read)

Unexpected AI expenses have caused one-quarter of enterprises to delay or cancel projects, while nearly half have escalated spending surprises to their boards, according to a survey of 396 organizations. Costs are becoming harder to track as AI spending spreads across models, infrastructure, developer tools, data platforms, and agentic workflows, pushing CIOs to build cost controls directly into their AI architecture.

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GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History (5 minute read)

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

Generative UI (14 minute read)

Tradeoffs in Open-Weights Models (9 minute read)

Surprise AI costs threaten enterprise implementations (4 minute read)

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