Claude Code Gets Path-Specific Rules (Cursor Had This First)
Claude Code 2.0.64 adds .claude/rules/ with path matching. It's a welcome addition, but Cursor's had .cursor/rules/ for months. Here's the comparison.
Read more →Denial, Then Admission: Why LLM Quality Drops Are Real
Anthropic denied issues for weeks, then published a postmortem admitting three bugs degraded 16% of Claude requests. The pattern keeps repeating.
Read more →Your Ad Budget Is Feeding Bots: Why the Future Is Physical
51% of web traffic is now bots - the first time machines exceeded humans. $238B wasted on fake impressions in 2024. Out-of-home is the fraud-proof alternative.
Read more →Your Website Is About to Become a Workflow
The human-facing web is dying. Zero-click searches, bot traffic exceeding humans, publishers losing 40%+ traffic. What comes next: an agentic web where sites are API endpoints, not destinations.
Read more →The External Scaffolding Era Is Ending
BMAD, Spec-Kit, Cline - frameworks that compensated for tool limitations. Plan Mode, Cursor 2.0, and Antigravity absorb the patterns natively.
Read more →The LinkedIn Hot Take Problem: Why the AI Discourse Is Backwards
The arguments about vibe coding and junior developers miss what software engineering was always about: shipping products, not typing code.
Read more →12 Factor Agents: Principles for AI That Actually Work
HumanLayer's 12-factor agents codifies what works in production AI: own your context, keep agents small, stay out of the dumb zone.
Read more →Anthropic Bought Bun
Anthropic's first acquisition ever. A $183B AI company just bet their fastest-growing product on a JavaScript runtime. Claude Code hit $1B in 6 months - built on Bun.
Read more →Plan Mode Is Now Mandatory. Auto-Compact Should Be Enabled.
Opus 4.5 shipped Plan Mode as a core workflow. The workarounds are obsolete. And the case for auto-compact finally tips in favor of enabling it.
Read more →Ralph Wiggum: Autonomous Loops for Claude Code
The official Claude Code plugin that lets agents work autonomously for hours. When to use it, when not to, and the philosophy behind letting AI fail repeatedly until it succeeds.
Read more →Claude Code Plugins: Breaking the AI Slop Aesthetic
How Anthropic's new plugin system and frontend-design skill help Claude Code generate distinctive UI instead of generic AI output.
Read more →Agent Harnesses: From DIY Patterns to Product
Anthropic's engineering team published patterns for long-running agents. These same patterns - progress tracking, feature lists, session protocols - are what products like SpecPilot must solve at scale.
Read more →The Scaling Trap: When Startups Eat Their Own
At around 30 employees, growing companies either mature or become toxic. Here's the playbook for organizational dysfunction - and why your engineering leaders keep leaving.
Read more →AI-Generated UI Mockups in Your Coding Workflow
Design systems from mockup to code in a single Claude Code session. Use Gemini 3 Pro to generate UI concepts, then implement them directly.
Read more →Opus 4.5 and Tool Search: The Native Fix for MCP Context Bloat
Claude's new model ships with defer_loading for tools. The MCP isolation patterns I built are now (mostly) obsolete.
Read more →From Single Model to Specialized Tooling: Adding React Grab to the Stack
My AI workflow evolved from 'Claude does everything' to specialized tools for each task. React Grab fills the UI extraction gap I didn't know I had.
Read more →The SDLC Is Collapsing Too
The PM/Eng split dissolved into product engineering. Now the traditional software development lifecycle is following suit as coding agents handle multi-hour tasks across planning, building, testing, and deployment.
Read more →The Quiet Advantage: Introverts in Tech
How modern tools transformed my experience as an introverted engineer and tech leader
Read more →Hybrid AI Workflows: Spawning Gemini from Claude Code
Claude Code for development, Gemini 3 Pro for visual analysis, research, and deep thinking. A slash command that routes tasks to the right model.
Read more →Gemini 3: The First Unambiguous #1 in Months
Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
Read more →Finding the Craft in the Chaos: A Stoic Take on Job Loss
What happens when you lose external validation and discover what actually matters: the work itself.
Read more →C# 14 and .NET 10: Less Boilerplate, More Clarity
The latest C# release continues its quiet war on ceremony with field-backed properties, extension members, and smarter spans. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
Read more →Product Engineering: The New Superpower
How AI and spec-driven development are fusing product management with engineering, creating a new hybrid role that's transforming how small teams ship software.
Read more →C# Scripts: The Python Killer You Already Know
.NET 10's shebang support and file-based apps turn C# into a scripting language. No more context-switching to Python for quick scripts.
Read more →Use Bun
I fought to move teams from npm to pnpm. I was all in. Then a friend said 'lol use bun' and I converted every project within days. Here's why I'll never go back.
Read more →Skills Auto-Activation via Hooks (Does It Solve the Problem?)
Hooks-based skill activation solves context selection (which guidelines? which tools?) but not workflow orchestration. Both patterns have their place.
Read more →Expressing MCP Tools as Code APIs (96% Less Context)
From Chrome DevTools experiment to universal MCP wrapper: progressive discovery works with any server, Skills integration, and smart deduplication
Read more →Claude Skills: The Controllability Problem
Skills are auto-invoked by Claude's judgment. For engineering workflows that need predictability, slash commands give you explicit control.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
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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