Bypassing MCP Context Bloat in Claude Code with Shell Functions
How to invoke Claude Code from bash to keep specialized MCP tools isolated from your main conversation context.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Flutter: Animated Gradients via Custom Hooks
Building reusable animated gradients in Flutter using custom hooks for cleaner, more maintainable UI code.
Read more →Flutter architecture: Hooks, Functional Widget and RxDart
Flutter state management without the boilerplate using Hooks, RxDart, and Functional Widgets for reactive, testable code.
Read more →Exploding stuff in Unity
Building realistic voxel explosion effects in Unity that break objects into their constituent cubes with physics and particle systems.
Read more →ASP.NET Core Image Resizing Middleware
Building cross-platform image resizing middleware for ASP.NET Core using SkiaSharp before mature libraries existed.
Read more →Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 2
Part 2: Adding inter-service communication to .NET Core microservices using HttpClient and custom logging services.
Read more →Radial slider in RaphaëlJS
Building a two-handle circular slider in RaphaëlJS inspired by Apple's iOS Bedtime feature using SVG and vector math.
Read more →Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 1
Building lightweight microservices with .NET Core and Nancy framework before ASP.NET Core MVC reached maturity.
Read more →Transactional email on .net core with Sendwithus
This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. Transactional emails can be a real bugbear for business and for marketers. They are often buried
Read more →"Controllerless" views in asp.net core
Enabling frontend developers to work on ASP.NET Core views without writing C# by building custom middleware for Razor-only routing.
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