Thoughts on authentication, developer tools, and building secure applications.
AI-generated code often breaks in production due to hidden assumptions. Here's how to audit vibe-coded projects and build a workflow that actually holds up.
Git's staging area and interactive rebase cause daily friction. Learn how jj (Jujutsu) solves these problems with a simpler model while staying Git-compatible.
Set up a fully local AI coding assistant with Ollama and Continue. No cloud dependency, full privacy, and surprisingly good code completions.
Comparing open-weight AI model licenses after MiniMax's M2.5 licensing controversy — what developers need to know before choosing a model for production.
Large pull requests kill code review quality. Learn how stacked PRs solve this with gh-stack, turning painful rebasing into a single command.
Fix the robotic, corporate tone in LLM-powered features using system prompt engineering. A practical guide to eliminating AI slop.
AI-powered web scrapers work great for news digests but fail at everything else. Here's why, and how to build scraping pipelines that actually hold up.
Servo, the Rust-native parallel web rendering engine, just hit crates.io as v0.1.0. Here's how to embed it in your project and avoid the gotchas.
Most engineering teams have no idea what their work actually costs. Here's a practical framework for tracking effort allocation and making better decisions.
A deep dive into programmatically installing Firefox extensions, why naive approaches fail, and the right way to automate browser extension management for dev environments.
When AWS Lambda costs and cold starts become unsustainable, here's how to evaluate containers as an alternative and migrate incrementally.
Learn why LLM agent personas break down in multi-turn conversations and how skill-based persona distillation keeps your agents consistently in character.
A step-by-step guide to running a web server on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi with just 27MB of RAM, from OS stripping to power management.
