Notes from the
build.
Occasional posts on building enterprise applications, AI-native platforms, and the lessons from shipping - what we're seeing work, and what we're seeing fail.
Brilliant Badger Blueprint: memorable IDs in one prompt.
How xMS's generated field primitives turned a fiddly feature request into a single prompt - and a million-combination namespace to match.
Read the post →An AI almost disabled our security. We caught it - but we shouldn't have had to.
A short story from building xMS. Why vibe coding for enterprise needs guardrails that don't rely on the coder being an expert.
Read the post →Vibe coding is great. For enterprise, you need the other 80%.
Why xMS exists, where vibe coding still wins, and what goes wrong when teams pick the wrong tool for the job.
Read the post →Security, inherited.
Why enterprise security belongs in the platform - not the application code.
Read the post →What Honan taught us (and why we rebuilt xMS after)
Shipping a production portal to 500+ strata clients changed how we thought about the platform. Here's what we learned - and what we did about it.
Read the post →Two versions of your app. One database. Zero downtime.
Parallel versioning is the feature most platforms skip - and the one your enterprise users will quietly depend on.
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