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Building a Design System from Scratch
A hands-on walkthrough of building a personal design system, covering color tokens, compound components, Stitches, and esbuild bundling for real-world reuse.
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AI Coding Tools Are Creating Systems Nobody Fully Understands
AI coding tools are compounding technical debt at machine speed — velocity metrics look great while systemic comprehension quietly collapses.
How to Make a Scatter Plot in Python With plt.scatter()
A hands-on guide to building scatter plots with Matplotlib's plt.scatter(), covering customization, multi-variable encoding, and when to use plt.plot() instead.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
A practical walkthrough of VS Code's Git integration — covering repos, branches, diffs, cloning, and AI-assisted workflows with GitHub MCP.
Murph - local agent for async handoffs in Slack and Discord
Murph is a local AI agent that watches your channels while you're away, drafts grounded replies, and leaves a full review trail.
Using encapsulated development to code on my phone
How one developer averages two daily commits on a side project using only a phone and a disciplined 'encapsulated development' workflow.
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Developers Are Entering the Era of Steering and Orchestration
The developer role isn't dying — it's shifting to steering AI agents and building orchestration pipelines, a discipline called Harness Engineering.
Running Code in a Programming Language Nobody Knows
A developer used an LLM to bootstrap a self-hosting C-replacement language called Nucleus — without ever fully knowing the language himself.
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses as agentic AI tools blow through budgets, signaling the end of unlimited enterprise AI experimentation.
How to Build a Software Factory with Claude Code: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Development
Stop vibe coding and start building a structured AI software factory with specialized subagents, an orchestrator, and delivery pipelines.
Video Generator
VideoGenerator is a Python tool that automates video creation using pygame for visuals, pyttsx3 for text-to-speech, and FFmpeg for processing—offering a straightforward yet powerful way to generate video content programmatically.
Building a Self-Evolving AI Agent with a Local Skill Database in Python
Build a Python AI agent with Gemini 2.5 Flash that writes, saves, and reuses its own code tools autonomously.
Applying metaphors from other fields into software development
Metaphors like "code smell" and "technical debt" already shape how developers think — but concepts from other fields offer fresh ways to understand software. The Flywheel Effect, Entropy, Compound Effect, and Broken Windows...
The Database Zoo: Exotic Data Storage Engines - why SQL and NoSQL aren't enough anymore
Modern applications now handle vastly different data types — from IoT metrics to AI vectors to social graphs — and neither SQL nor NoSQL databases handle all of them well. This series explores specialized database engines built...
CC-Wiki: Turn Claude Code sessions into a shareable knowledge base wiki
CC-Wiki converts your Claude Code session history into a shareable, structured knowledge base using Quartz — no context wasted.
What Code Reviews Taught Me Over Time
100 PRs later: the biggest code review lessons involve PR size limits, AI-code pitfalls, and asking questions instead of giving orders.
A simple AI agent in Java
JAgent is a free Java-based AI coding agent powered by LangChain4j and Mistral that generates working code on the first try.
How to Build a Prismic Website with an AI Agent
Prismic's new AI-native CLI and skills let you scaffold, model, and deploy a full CMS website with just a few prompts.
Should you use Gemma 4 for your Development? A Multiversal Analysis to Determine if Gemma 4 is Right for You!
Four developers tested Google's Gemma 4 across different use cases: local setup via Ollama, reasoning/trick questions, prototyping, and AI-agent tasks. While Gemma 4 impressed with offline reliability and privacy benefits, it...
mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
mvm is an embeddable Go interpreter that runs source files directly with a built-in REPL, debugger, and full standard library in one binary.
Discovery Platform for Startups
A B2B API platform lets AI companies inject verified expert knowledge into agents at runtime without bloating context windows.
What 49 Vibe-Coded GitHub Projects Revealed About AI Code Duplication
Scanning 49 AI-built projects revealed 7.98% average code duplication, with AI agent skill libraries — not apps — being the worst offenders.
Stop building your modular mobile app the slow way
Fan-out/fan-in CI topology lets modular mobile apps build modules in parallel, cutting 25-minute pipelines to 10 minutes using Codemagic and Nx Cloud.
5 Best JavaScript Beautifier Tools for Clean and Readable Code
A breakdown of five JavaScript beautifier tools, comparing privacy, speed, and configuration options to help developers clean up messy code fast.