Frigga Blogs

Ask an embedding-based system which code relates to PaymentService and you will get back things that look like PaymentService . Other payment classes. Functions with payment in the name. A test file. Possibly a payment integration in a completely dif…

A bug came in on something I'd written. My name on the commit, my PR, merged and running for months. I opened the file and had no idea how it worked. Not a vague memory that needed refreshing. Genuinely blank. I'd reviewed that code, I'…

Somebody asks how order creation works. You open the order service and start reading. POST /orders → OrderController.create() → OrderService.submit() → orders table → publish("order.created") And that's where the trail stops. Not bec…

The hard part of joining a team isn't the code. It's that you don't know where anything is, and every question you have is one somebody else could answer in about four seconds. So you either interrupt them, or you spend forty minutes fin…

The change looked safe. Rename a field, tidy up a response, remove something nobody uses. I searched the repository I was working in. Nothing came back. Shipped it. The thing that breaks in this story is never in the repo you searched. It's in…

I assumed private repositories were the safe ones. Everyone I've asked assumed the same thing. GitGuardian's 2026 report says 32.2% of internal repositories contain at least one hardcoded secret , against about 6% of public ones. Roughly six…

Every investigation I have been part of needs two kinds of knowledge, and they never live in the same place. The first is what production is doing. Error rate, latency, memory, what deployed and when, which pods are unhappy. That is Grafana, or Data…