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Productivity includes tips on how to use tools and software, process optimization, useful references, experience, and mindstate optimization.

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6 years building Planning Poker Online: from a weekend project to 147K users (and 3 mistakes I had to fix)
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6 years building Planning Poker Online: from a weekend project to 147K users (and 3 mistakes I had to fix)

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LSM Trees: Why Your Database Writes Are Fast and Your Reads Are Lying to You

LSM Trees: Why Your Database Writes Are Fast and Your Reads Are Lying to You

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How to Cycle AI Agents for Free using CSC

How to Cycle AI Agents for Free using CSC

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Why AI Agents Cost More Than LLMs (And How to Stop Bleeding Tokens)

Why AI Agents Cost More Than LLMs (And How to Stop Bleeding Tokens)

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Why Excel Interop Is a Bad Idea for ASP.NET Applications
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Why Excel Interop Is a Bad Idea for ASP.NET Applications

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Developers switch environments 20 times a day. Why are you still editing URLs manually?

Developers switch environments 20 times a day. Why are you still editing URLs manually?

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Technical debt handling

Technical debt handling

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Local Agentic Development with Ollama and OpenCode
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Local Agentic Development with Ollama and OpenCode

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How Are You Managing Your AI's Context Window?

How Are You Managing Your AI's Context Window?

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Claude AI Is Underrated: 10 Prompts That Made Me Switch from ChatGPT

Claude AI Is Underrated: 10 Prompts That Made Me Switch from ChatGPT

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Vibe coded Power Pages SPA: unfiltered
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Vibe coded Power Pages SPA: unfiltered

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For a lot of libraries, I read the source before I read the docs

For a lot of libraries, I read the source before I read the docs

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Designing Reliable Tool Schemas with Zod for LLM Agents
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Designing Reliable Tool Schemas with Zod for LLM Agents

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DeepSeek V4 + Claude Code: Building a "Surgical" Development Workflow with China's Strongest Open-Source Model

DeepSeek V4 + Claude Code: Building a "Surgical" Development Workflow with China's Strongest Open-Source Model

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DDD is not about Code, it’s about Productivity!
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DDD is not about Code, it’s about Productivity!

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