Writing about code, design, and everything in between.
24 posts
Just InThe Brief and the Inventory
What I Learned Researching DESIGN.md and Design-System MCP Servers
18 min read

One Flag Away From Root
What I Learned Researching the LMCache Pickle RCE
13 min read
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React and Tailwind CSS components you add with the shadcn CLI. The source lands in your project, ready to change.
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16.3.7 Is Not the Patch
What I Learned Researching the Next.js September Security Release
16 min read

You Already Gave It the Keys
What I Learned Researching Apple's Full Disk Access Crackdown on AI Agents
14 min read

The Fix Shipped 27 Days Early
What I Learned Researching the keyv Shai-Hulud npm Worm
12 min read

One Million Tokens Out
What Gemini 4 Argon's Output Cap Changes for the People Who Have to Run It
25 min read

Everyone Removed the Off Switch
What I Learned Reading the GPT-6.1 Sol, Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash Migration Guides
28 min read

Not a Ladder, a Fork
What I Learned Researching Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5
28 min read

Not a Winner, a Routing Rule
What I Learned Researching Claude Opus 5.5 vs Fable 5.1
22 min read

Polydact
A Wearable Robotic Sixth Finger That Coils Like a Tentacle, and the One Spiral Behind Its Grasp
12 min read

Claude Sonnet 5 in Production
What I Liked, What Bit Me, and the Token Tax Behind the Matching Price
9 min read

What a Turborepo Monorepo Taught Me About Code Quality
The File Tree Mattered More Than the Linter
10 min read

Scaling React in 2026
7 Decisions That Mattered, and Why None of Them Were useMemo
9 min read

Scaling RAG to 10M Documents
The Hallucination Fixes That Worked Were the Boring Ones
9 min read

The Same Context, Billed on Every Turn
How to Cut Agentic AI Token Costs
14 min read

You Don't Import It, You Own It
Why shadcn/ui Beats Every Other Component Library
6 min read

The 12 AI Books That Actually Make You Better at Building (2026)
A pillar-by-pillar reading guide for engineers shipping agents, LLM systems, RAG, evals, and reliable production AI, organized by what you build, not by hype.
9 min read

The Claude Workflow That Replaced 200 Words of Context With Two Sentences
How stacking four Claude features lets you stop re-explaining yourself at the start of every chat, and just ask for the thing. Preferences, Styles, Projects, and Memory do the carrying.
7 min read

The Scanner That Refuses to Run Your Code
Inside Perplexity's Bumblebee
6 min read

The Invisible Box Around Your Text, and How to Finally Trim It
Remove the empty space CSS bakes around text. A one-line, optical fix using text-box-trim and text-box-edge, with progressive enhancement for browser support.
6 min read

The Scraper That Doesn't Get Banned
Building a Scalable Web Scraping Pipeline in Go
12 min read

Boring on Purpose
Go Basics for People Who Want to Ship
7 min read

I Spent 6 Months Tuning Claude Code. Here's the Exact Setup That Finally Worked.
The exact Claude Code setup after six months: a lean CLAUDE.md, lazy-loaded skills, subagents, hooks, git worktrees, and the five MCP servers that earn their place.
12 min read

The Bluffing Problem
What Claude Opus 4.8 Changes About Trusting AI Code
7 min read