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Christmas thoughts: Why Senior Engineers hate "cool" new frameworks (and why you should too).
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Christmas thoughts: Why Senior Engineers hate "cool" new frameworks (and why you should too).

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I Built a Tool Because I Was Tired of Overthinking Comments
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I Built a Tool Because I Was Tired of Overthinking Comments

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The UX of DX: Identifying the Key Areas for Designer Participation in Developer Experience Projects

The UX of DX: Identifying the Key Areas for Designer Participation in Developer Experience Projects

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A quick human interruption to your usual dev content

A quick human interruption to your usual dev content

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The mental checklist I use when troubleshooting Linux servers
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The mental checklist I use when troubleshooting Linux servers

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How I Refactored My VS Code Extension to be 100% Serverless & Offline 🚀 (CodeTune v0.0.7)

How I Refactored My VS Code Extension to be 100% Serverless & Offline 🚀 (CodeTune v0.0.7)

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Outgrowing Zapier, Make, and n8n for AI Agents: The Production Migration Blueprint
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Outgrowing Zapier, Make, and n8n for AI Agents: The Production Migration Blueprint

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Wait, You Mean They're Different?
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Wait, You Mean They're Different?

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Mechanical Engineering + Python: A Great Combination for Simple Tasks (Showcasing PyNCViewer)

Mechanical Engineering + Python: A Great Combination for Simple Tasks (Showcasing PyNCViewer)

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Solo Devs Don't Survive Legacy: Why 'Commando Units' Beat 'Full Utilization'
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Solo Devs Don't Survive Legacy: Why 'Commando Units' Beat 'Full Utilization'

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Moving from GitHub Actions? Software binary management for any CI/CD pipeline

Moving from GitHub Actions? Software binary management for any CI/CD pipeline

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How I Tamed Claude Code with Pre-Tool Hooks (And You Should Too)

How I Tamed Claude Code with Pre-Tool Hooks (And You Should Too)

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Complete Guide to Run AI Models Locally, Even on Mid-Tier Laptop
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Complete Guide to Run AI Models Locally, Even on Mid-Tier Laptop

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Python Optimization Fails When You Skip This One Step
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Python Optimization Fails When You Skip This One Step

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I built two open-source tools faster by letting AI write most of the code
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I built two open-source tools faster by letting AI write most of the code

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How to Use the Rules Feature in HttpTracer
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How to Use the Rules Feature in HttpTracer

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I built a SaaS to solve my own problem — now I’m unsure whether to scale it or move on
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I built a SaaS to solve my own problem — now I’m unsure whether to scale it or move on

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Shallow Agents vs Deep Agents: How Deep Research Actually Works Inside GPT-Like Systems
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Shallow Agents vs Deep Agents: How Deep Research Actually Works Inside GPT-Like Systems

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How to Write in Markdown but Deliver in Word. A Senior Architect's Workflow.
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How to Write in Markdown but Deliver in Word. A Senior Architect's Workflow.

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From Infrastructure as Code to Platform as a Product: The Shift You Can’t Ignore

From Infrastructure as Code to Platform as a Product: The Shift You Can’t Ignore

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Meet StackQL: The Future of AI Multi-Cloud Management with SQL 🤖⚡️
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Meet StackQL: The Future of AI Multi-Cloud Management with SQL 🤖⚡️

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Automating DevRel: How I Use Gemini CLI and Gemini 3 to Catch Bugs in My Blog Posts

Automating DevRel: How I Use Gemini CLI and Gemini 3 to Catch Bugs in My Blog Posts

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zeP - Zigs missing Package Manager

zeP - Zigs missing Package Manager

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How to implement the Observer Pattern in Unity (and why UnityEvents limit you)

How to implement the Observer Pattern in Unity (and why UnityEvents limit you)

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AI without the hype: using LLMs to reduce noise, not replace thinking

AI without the hype: using LLMs to reduce noise, not replace thinking

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