Scott Mallinson

Scott Mallinson

Sep 28

A passing test that never saw the page

#engineering #debugging #frontend #tooling

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Sep 23

Guardrails belong at every boundary, not just the front door

#engineering #ai #websecurity #architecture

5 min read

Scott Mallinson

Sep 23

Keeping an AI guardrail release honest

#engineering #ai #devops #architecture

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Sep 8

What AI features force you to specify

#engineering #ai #architecture

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Sep 4

The guardrail is the feature

#engineering #ai #automation #tooling

5 min read

Scott Mallinson

Aug 27

Bad acceptance criteria ship as bugs

#engineering #architecture #ai

6 min read

Scott Mallinson

Aug 19

The demo is the test

#engineering #ai #architecture #debugging

15 min read

Scott Mallinson

Aug 19

Codebase health is a lagging indicator

#engineering #tooling #frontend #observability

5 min read

Scott Mallinson

Aug 19

Designing a logging system for an AI service

#engineering #ai #observability

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 27

From merged pull requests to a performance review

#engineering #automation #ai #tooling

13 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 22

On console warnings and the things we don't remove

#engineering #frontend #tooling

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

Two kinds of correctness: currency bugs and ghost feature flags

#engineering #debugging #featureflags

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

The shape of shared libraries

#engineering #architecture #microservices

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

Three quiet bugs hiding in a cross-service feature

#engineering #ai #microservices #debugging

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

The scaffolding tax: getting a new service properly bootstrapped

#engineering #devops #architecture

2 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

Shipping a conversational search flow across services

#engineering #ai #microservices #mcp

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jun 16

Release pipelines should be boring

#engineering #devops #automation

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jun 13

Granular Dependabot groups and getting error attribution right

#engineering #maintenance

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jun 9

What adding an AI layer taught me about type ownership

#ai #programming

3

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

The notification that wouldn't leave

#engineering

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

Designing an API endpoint for an AI consumer

#engineering

3 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jul 15

Keeping orchestration in your code, not your prompt

#engineering #ai

4 min read

Scott Mallinson

Jun 11

The quiet work of removing feature flags

#engineering #featureflags #maintenance

1

2 min read

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A passing test that never saw the page

Guardrails belong at every boundary, not just the front door

Keeping an AI guardrail release honest

What AI features force you to specify

The guardrail is the feature

Bad acceptance criteria ship as bugs

The demo is the test

Codebase health is a lagging indicator

Designing a logging system for an AI service

From merged pull requests to a performance review

On console warnings and the things we don't remove

Two kinds of correctness: currency bugs and ghost feature flags

The shape of shared libraries

Three quiet bugs hiding in a cross-service feature

The scaffolding tax: getting a new service properly bootstrapped

Shipping a conversational search flow across services

Release pipelines should be boring

Granular Dependabot groups and getting error attribution right

What adding an AI layer taught me about type ownership

The notification that wouldn't leave

Designing an API endpoint for an AI consumer

Keeping orchestration in your code, not your prompt

The quiet work of removing feature flags