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Muse Spark 1.1 Replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 for Me A personal evaluation of Muse Spark 1.1 for tool-driven inference and DevOps work, using the CommandCode harness. 2026-07-13 Notes on Building a WebRTC SFU in Rust Architecture notes on media routing, renegotiation, jitter estimation, bounded recording, and the limits of an SFU prototype. 2026-01-03 A Jenkins Pipeline That Can Fail Safely A practical Jenkins pipeline built around immutable artifacts, bounded credentials, explicit promotion, and rollback evidence. 2026-01-03 Choosing a Container Base Image Without Guessing A current, measurement-first guide to Alpine, Debian slim, Distroless, and Bun container images. 2026-01-02 Rebuilding UltraBalancer in Rust: What the Benchmark Actually Proves The current UltraBalancer architecture, its published 500K+ RPS benchmark, and the limits behind that number. 2025-12-15