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Practice·5 min·Jun 1, 2026Latest
What “you own the IP” actually means in our contracts
Ownership is a clause, an assignment, and a clean repo handover - here is what we put in writing and why.
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AI/ML·7 min·May 9, 2026
We measure our models against the dumbest possible baseline
Before any model ships, it has to beat a rule a junior analyst could write - and surprisingly often it does not.
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Engineering·9 min·Apr 18, 2026
The six-hour batch job, and how we got it to 22 minutes
A walkthrough of profiling a legacy nightly job and the three changes that did 90% of the work.
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Engineering·6 min·Mar 4, 2026
Why we ship behind feature flags from day one
Flags are not a deploy tool; they are how we separate “shipped” from “released” and keep a bad change from becoming an outage.
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