Topic
Engineering
9 insights in Engineering.
2026
5 posts- Engineering
When the Code Becomes the Spec
Why greenfield projects drift from their own specification faster than anyone expects, and the boundary-level practice that keeps the SDD worth reading.
- Engineering
Every Greenfield Project Becomes Brownfield. The Question Is When.
Greenfield and brownfield are not about a codebase's age — they are about how well the team still understands the system. Here is why the shift usually feels sudden even though it never is.
- Engineering
Set Up Your Claude Code Status Line (Almost Nobody Does This)
A 30-second tweak that keeps your model, remaining context, rate-limit usage, working directory, and git branch on screen the whole time. It's the most useful Claude Code setting nobody talks about.
- Engineering
Why Your Test Coverage Number Is Lying to You
Why raw test coverage leaves brownfield systems exposed—and how risk-weighted gap intelligence helps teams close the gaps that matter.
- Engineering
Spread-em: designing a distributed file store with AI
How we used Claude to research and build Spread-em a bit-torrent-class distributed storage system for serverless social apps to 60% product readiness in five days.
2013
1 post- Engineering
Filemap released to open source
ToolTwist released Filemap, a developer library for virtual file mapping across local, S3, baked-in, and plugin-backed storage locations.
2012
1 post- Engineering
ToolTwist’s XDATA released as an open-source project
If you spend your days building applications that constantly juggle data formats, you already know that parsing can be a massive bottleneck.
2011
1 post- Engineering
ToolTwist’s FIP released as an open-source
If you are managing web applications right now, you already know that deploying updates to remote servers can be a massive headache.
2010
1 post- Engineering
Powering CommBank's augmented-reality Property Guide
In 2010 ToolTwist built the backend that fed CommBank's pioneering AR property app a fast JSON API translating a tangle of legacy XML feeds for the iPhone.