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Notes to myself
about code, mostly.
Hi, I'm Platte, a software engineer. I like to write about things I think I've learned - patterns that keep paying off, a book that rearranged my thinking, or opinions on working with AI. I aim for a mid-level engineer reading level: I'll assume you've shipped real software, I won't assume you've already met this particular idea.
~/writing — zsh
TIL · Oct 3
Baggage propagates across service boundaries via the W3C Baggage header; span attributes do not. Reach for baggage only when a downstream span needs to read the value — everything else belongs in SetAttribute. #otel
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2026-09-27
1 min · ‡ essay
1 min · ‡ essay
poo-tee-weet
I do all of my writing on top of a tool that I built for myself - it has been useful to me, and I think it's time I share it.
2026-09-09
4 min · ‡ essay
4 min · ‡ essay
tmux and Hooks
Agent orchestrators got the problem right and the primitive wrong. You don't need a wrapper around your coding agent. You need tmux and a few hooks.