Codeminer42's Engineering Blog
What Codeminer42 engineers dig up at work: field notes on Rails, AI tooling, security, and keeping product teams shipping.
An agent opens a file, sees a strange-looking loop, and "simplifies" it. The loop was strange on purpose. Someone had chosen it months earlier, after an incident, in a meeting the agent wasn't in. The PR looks clean, and the…
A few weeks ago I picked up a ticket that said, more or less, "implement the auth layer." The application already had authentication working, so the first job…
The comment started with three words: This breaks prod. It was a PR of about five hundred lines -- in a repo I had just encountered, and I…
I built a dojo where Claude Code tutors you and refuses to type your code. Making that refusal stick took four tries, and the result is a recipe for packaging any team workflow as a plugin.
A complement to Fabio Akita's post on the Coinkite RNG problem (in Portuguese), aimed at people who used a BIP39 passphrase and at the question left hanging: did…
GemLab has several projects running at the same time, and all of them change from week to week. Then someone asks how Mother is doing, and the honest…
