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Notes on how systems misbehave.
Short pieces on measurement, reliability, and the failure modes that only make sense at the level of the whole machine.
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09 Aug 2026
Colophon
→How this site is built
A static site with no CMS, no build-time magic, and a deliberate rule that the content is data rather than markup.
AstroTailwindDesign systems -
22 Jul 2026
Systems
→Reliability is a design property, not an operational outcome
How well a system survives contact with reality is mostly decided at design time, not during the incident.
ReliabilityDesignOperations -
15 Jul 2026
Systems
→Constraints shape system behavior long before they break it
Limits change feedback and stability well before anything crosses a threshold and trips.
ThermalControlFeedback -
08 Jul 2026
Systems
→Why local optimizations quietly break systems
An improvement made in one place can remove the slack another part of the system was relying on, and the bill arrives later.
PerformanceSecond-order effectsResilience -
01 Jul 2026
Systems
→Why most system failures aren't isolated failures
Failures in complex systems usually emerge from interactions between healthy components, not from a single defective one.
ReliabilityRoot causeFeedback loops