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Developing Engineering Judgment in the Age of AI Code Generation
Coding alone won't protect your career — the developers who thrive with AI are those who can verify, architect, and communicate.
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Using Local Coding Agents
A practical guide to running fully local coding agents with open-weight LLMs, including a checklist for evaluating model suitability for real work.
What Is an AI Native Software Engineer?
Having an AI coding tool license doesn't make you AI-native. The real edge comes from building the system around the AI—giving it repo memory, team conventions, and verification loops so its output is consistently review-ready.
I Ported 60,000 Lines of PHP to NodeJS/TypeScript in just 14 Hours. The Speed Wasn’t the Surprise.
A 60,000-line PHP-to-TypeScript port completed in 14 hours with Claude Code — but only through constant human-AI collaboration, not pure automation.
Building an AI Agent That Responds to Real-Time Events With AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3
Build a real-time recommendation engine on AWS where Kinesis, Lambda, and Bedrock update suggestions within seconds of user behavior.
Thoughts on coding agents
Coding agents amplify direction, not replace it — and they're quietly dismantling the organizational permission systems that slowed individual builders down.
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Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code
A side-by-side Python vs Rye comparison shows how error handling kills clean code — unless failures are treated as normal values.
Building Your API Gateway From OpenAPI Specs: A Spec-Driven Approach
Generate your API gateway directly from OpenAPI specs to eliminate config drift, enforce consistency, and make every endpoint debuggable like ordinary code.
Who Else Has Inherited a Codebase With Zero Comments and a Prayer?
A 'small fix' ticket turns into a late-night code archaeology nightmare, revealing why every codebase becomes someone else's crime scene.
TypeScript Strict Mode — Why I Use It in Every Project
A real production null-crash story makes the case for TypeScript strict mode, with practical migration tips and the exact tsconfig setup to use.
WebGlean – API that turns any site into clean Markdown for LLMs
WebGlean is an API that converts websites into Markdown, JSON, or plain text for AI pipelines. It uses Claude and Mozilla Readability for clean data extraction, with six endpoints and free credit-based pricing.
Aletheia – The Uncertainty Loop Agent for Claude Code and Codex
Aletheia is an AI investigator that weighs conflicting evidence, tracks uncertainty explicitly, and returns INCONCLUSIVE when the evidence doesn't support a confident answer.
Using a vector database with PHP
Build a local semantic search engine over PHP's array API using Vektor and Ollama — query in plain English, no cloud required.
Why don't people use git properly?
Most developers misuse git not because it's hard, but because they've never experienced the real problems it solves firsthand.
Why Every Developer Will Become an AI Orchestrator
Developers aren't disappearing — they're becoming AI orchestrators, shifting from writing code to directing intelligent agents toward better software.
Ghostlog: Live terminal UI to monitor AI coding agent Git commits
ghostlog is a real-time terminal UI that tracks and groups AI coding agent commits in Git, with CI gate mode for blocking risky code.
Diffy – browser extension for faster GitHub PR review experience
Diffy is a browser extension that fixes GitHub's PR review limitations with full-screen diffs, batch reviews, and a searchable file tree.
liteadmin: A hostable SQLite browser and editor like phpMyAdmin, but for SQLite.
LiteAdmin is a PHP-based, self-hostable SQLite admin UI with a Monaco editor, query analyzer, schema tools, and Docker support.
Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the console
Use mGBA's memory-mapped debug registers to add printf-style logging to your GBA game, with easy compile-time removal for release builds.
A Very Subjective History of Functional Programming
Functional programming began in 1958 when John McCarthy built LISP to handle symbolic algebra. Decades later, its core ideas—lambdas, immutability, and pure functions—quietly conquered mainstream languages as multi-core...
How to Defend Your JavaScript App Against Unsafe Data with TypeScript Guard Utilities
Four TypeScript guard utilities — safeArray, safeString, safeNumber, safeObject — validate API data at runtime boundaries, preventing crashes and silent data corruption.
Google VP of Technology says he’s given up on coding
A 45-year coding veteran at Google DeepMind says he's done writing code himself — and predicts no one will review AI-generated code within a year.
.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git
Git has three ignore levels — `.gitignore`, `.git/info/exclude`, and a global config file — each serving a different scope.
Monitor Your PHP Applications with AppSignal
AppSignal now supports PHP apps with full monitoring — errors, performance, logs, and host metrics — with auto-instrumentation for Laravel and Symfony.