Allen Brooks

I'm Allen. 15 years building software and running teams; most of what I know I learned by watching software get built badly. Lionshead is where that philosophy ships as product: platforms I build solo

Greenville, SC Joined on Jul 30, 2026 https://lionshead.digital

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Allen Brooks

Aug 10

I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.

#agents #ai #automation #productivity

11 min read

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Allen Brooks

Aug 3

Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time

#cicd #devops #github #security

7 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.

#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #testing

5 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

I audited 2,864 CI checks. Several had never run, and green never told me.

7 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0

#database #devops #github #postgres

7 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

The security checks in every Lionshead PR

#automation #devops #security

7 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why.

3 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

Every website should have a colophon

#design #developer #webdev #website

1 min read

Allen Brooks

Jul 30

Keeping 10 repos in sync without a monorepo or a platform team

#agents #ai #automation #softwareengineering

6 min read

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I handed my backlog to an agent fleet for ten days. Three of its safeguards were lying to me.

Want to connect with Allen Brooks?

Killing the long-lived tokens in my CI, one exchange at a time

How do you know a passing check still works? Make it fail on purpose.

I audited 2,864 CI checks. Several had never run, and green never told me.

Every pull request gets its own app and its own Postgres branch, for $0

The security checks in every Lionshead PR

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why.

Every website should have a colophon

Keeping 10 repos in sync without a monorepo or a platform team