Event-Sourcing

Written with Claude. The governor issue closed mid-session At 16:52 UTC on May 22, meap2-it issue #1352 (“No Syncthing reads at runtime on dev-pi”) closed. That was the cascade governor: the issue that couldn’t close until every leaf under it had closed. Three concurrent Claude sessions across three repos for one focused day got it there. One session couldn’t have done this work at any speed. The cascade structure (a named invariant at the top, leaves underneath, each leaf owned by whichever repo holds the bytes) is what made parallel finishing possible. Some cross-cutting architectural debt isn’t single-session work; the cascade is the shape that admits parallel work closing it at all. ...

Written with Claude. Claude Said SQLite Would Work Fine, and I Pushed Back This has happened more than once. A storage problem comes up during MEAP’s development (sync conflicts, history, recovery) and the suggestion arrives: use a database. SQLite is the usual recommendation. It’s the right answer for most teams, and it’s the first tool in the context window for good reason. ...