This is what a Principal Engineer’s codebase actually looks like — a live, unscripted walkthrough of iching.rocks. This post was generated with an assist from Claude, querying my self-hosted Engram MCP server against the live iching.rocks repository — itself a demonstration of the semantic-memory infrastructure described below. Nothing here is hypothetical; every snippet was pulled […]
Most people treat “AI-assisted development” as a speed story: more code, faster. The part nobody talks about is what fast actually costs you if nothing is checking the work — silent asymmetries, tests that lie, features that should never have shipped in the first place. Using my Continuum process, I just finished the iching.rocks MCP […]
Most .NET developers have heard of BenchmarkDotNet. Fewer have used it on something that matters. And almost nobody talks about the part that actually changes how you think about performance: designing benchmarks that answer the right question. I spent several weeks optimizing a poker hand evaluator — a pure C# reimplementation of Cactus Kev’s classic […]
When a user gets a paid reading on iching.rocks, the system needs to generate a comprehensive, multi-section I Ching interpretation. Not a single paragraph — a full document covering opening observations, hexagram judgments, changing line analyses, Ten Wings commentary, synthesis, and a conclusion. Each section requires its own carefully crafted prompt with injected domain data. […]
Building Dynamic Trust Chains in C# Using Vault PKI Modern applications rarely live in isolation. Databases, APIs, message queues, and internal services all communicate over TLS—and in many organizations, those certificates are issued by a private Certificate Authority rather than a public one. This creates a subtle but critical challenge: how does a .NET application […]