The Hiring Mismatch: When 20 Years of Experience Isn't Enough
Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
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When Claude Needs a Second Opinion: Strategic Thinking with Codex
Claude Code loves to jump straight into implementation. Sometimes you need a model that thinks first. Here's how I use Codex for systems thinking and architecture decisions.
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Isolating MCP Context in Claude Code with Slash Commands
How to use slash commands to keep specialized MCP tools isolated from your main conversation context.
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DeepSeek-OCR: Compressing Text by 20x Using Vision
Converting text to images for 20x token compression. Interesting research or production-ready breakthrough? A critical look at the trade-offs.
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Few-Shot Learning for Document Parsing: Training AI on Human Corrections
How I built a self-improving document parser that learns from corrections without fine-tuning. The pragmatic alternative to model training.
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When Not to Use AI: Two Approaches to Building AI-Powered Products
Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
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How We Fixed Authorization by Moving Security from Code to Architecture
When expensive SSO was just a symptom of deeper architectural problems, we redesigned our multi-tenant system from first principles and cut costs significantly in the process.
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Building Trivista: What AI Coding Actually Solves (and What It Doesn't)
Building a multiplayer trivia app solo with AI coding tools. Here's what worked, what didn't, and the trade-offs no one talks about.
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Cascading AI Pipelines: When One Model Feeds Another
Building a multi-stage AI content pipeline where each generation depends on the last. Lessons from generating thousands of hybrid creatures with resilient error handling.
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Building Magpie Swoop: A Retro Game About Australia's Most Terrifying Spring Ritual
It's swooping season in Australia. So naturally, I built a retro pixel-art game about the annual aerial warfare between cyclists and territorial magpies.
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Stop Speedrunning Claude Code (Master the Core Loop First)
MCPs, subagents, and automation are tempting. But the developers getting the most from Claude Code aren't rushing to advanced features - they're mastering the fundamentals.
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When Cloudflare Thinks Your Cloud Function is a Bot: The Case for API Aggregators
A production outage caused by Cloudflare's anti-bot systems flagging Google Cloud datacenter IPs, and why API aggregation layers matter more than you think
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Vibe Coding a Blog Migration: Ghost to Astro in One Night with Claude Code
Converting a Ghost blog to Astro in a single late-night session with Claude Code, reducing memory usage by 75% while learning what AI coding tools actually solve
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Flutter Auto-Reload for Terminal Workflows
Building automatic hot reload for Flutter without an IDE using file watchers and Unix signals - for terminal-based development and AI coding tools.
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Building Real-Time Multiplayer with Firebase: What Works and What Doesn't
Real lessons from shipping multiplayer games with Firebase: what works for small groups, where it breaks down, and the scalability limits you need to know upfront.
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