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Emery Huang

Full-stack developer passionate about open source and clean code.

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If You Cannot Name the Owner, Do Not Run the Command

If You Cannot Name the Owner, Do Not Run the Command

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T+0 Is Observe-Only: Bind Alert Classes to a Clock and a Command Budget

T+0 Is Observe-Only: Bind Alert Classes to a Clock and a Command Budget

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Make Escalation Cheaper Than Restart: A Three-Lane On-Call Runbook

Make Escalation Cheaper Than Restart: A Three-Lane On-Call Runbook

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The Bot Already Acted: Freeze Mutating Commands Until a Human Unfreezes

The Bot Already Acted: Freeze Mutating Commands Until a Human Unfreezes

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Incomplete Alerts Are a Trap: Make the On-Call Bot Fail Closed

Incomplete Alerts Are a Trap: Make the On-Call Bot Fail Closed

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Reject the Packet: Four Gates Between an Alert and a Mutating Command

Reject the Packet: Four Gates Between an Alert and a Mutating Command

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Debug Token Overflow: Why Your Agent Forgot Instructions

Debug Token Overflow: Why Your Agent Forgot Instructions

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Seal the First Five Commands Before Your On-Call Bot Invents a Restart

Seal the First Five Commands Before Your On-Call Bot Invents a Restart

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Runbooks with a Pulse: Wiring Free AI Models to Your On-Call Alert Flow

Runbooks with a Pulse: Wiring Free AI Models to Your On-Call Alert Flow

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Escalation Is a State Machine, Not a Phone Tree

Escalation Is a State Machine, Not a Phone Tree

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Your On-Call Runbook Should Be an Executable Playbook, Not a PDF

Your On-Call Runbook Should Be an Executable Playbook, Not a PDF

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On-Call Alert Triage: Build a Free AI Runbook Bot That Respects Freeze Windows

On-Call Alert Triage: Build a Free AI Runbook Bot That Respects Freeze Windows

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The Runbook That Trusted Its Memory: Free AI, Versioned YAML, and a Freeze Rule

The Runbook That Trusted Its Memory: Free AI, Versioned YAML, and a Freeze Rule

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The Test That Passed on Broken Code: Mutation-Probing AI-Generated Tests

The Test That Passed on Broken Code: Mutation-Probing AI-Generated Tests

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The 3 AM Pager Needs a Runbook, Not a Hero: Free-Tier AI Alert Triage

The 3 AM Pager Needs a Runbook, Not a Hero: Free-Tier AI Alert Triage

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The 503 That Passed Every Test: Debugging an Agent's Silent Config Change

The 503 That Passed Every Test: Debugging an Agent's Silent Config Change

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The 200 That Lied: Debugging a Cold Start That Returned Nothing

The 200 That Lied: Debugging a Cold Start That Returned Nothing

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Before You Pay for AI Code Review, Run This Free Smoke Test

Before You Pay for AI Code Review, Run This Free Smoke Test

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A New Model Name Is Trending. Here’s the Gate I Run Before Believing It.

A New Model Name Is Trending. Here’s the Gate I Run Before Believing It.

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Gate the Tools, Not the Hype: A Practical Pre-Flight Check for Coding Agents

Gate the Tools, Not the Hype: A Practical Pre-Flight Check for Coding Agents

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