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How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build

Next.js was too much for what I needed. Astro renders pages to static HTML and only sends JavaScript to the browser when you expli...

No Mouse 30: A Quiet Experiment in Keyboard-First Work

A few weeks ago my wrist started hurting. The typing wasn’t the problem. The switching was. The browser is where most mouse usage...

3:2:1 Is Still Necessary. It’s Just No Longer Sufficient.

3:2:1 is a baseline, not a preservation strategy. Long-term data survival depends on fixity, provenance, true geo-dispersion, and...

What I Learned from Giving People a Choice in Ride Types

How I redesigned a ride-hailing order form for 360M users inside a 7-year-old monolith. Lessons on legacy code, user habits, and b...

How to Accidentally Build a Programming Language While Cleaning Redis

A “simple” Redis cleanup task evolved into a full rule engine. Configurable JSON rules grew to support logic, recursion, traversal...

The 3-Word Advice I Got From Paul Graham

Paul Graham is the co-founder of Y Combinator. He helped shape companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and mentored founders who wo...

How to Dive into a New Domain and Ship a High-Load System Fast

Remember: it’s difficult at first, but soon you’ll be swimming like a fish in water.

Stop "Shotgun Debugging": How to Use AI to Solve Bugs Like a Forensic Scientist

Software engineering is a rigorous, scientific process. In software, we too often rely on intuition and muscle memory. You need a...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Turn Year-End Reflections into Q1 Content Gold...

The Art of the Prompt: Engineering GenAI to Produce SOLID-Compliant Code

Generative AI is great at writing code that works, but terrible at writing code that lasts. Left to its own devices, an LLM will g...

Tired of Learning 50 New Concepts to Build a Form? Say Hello to Lighthouse for P...

TL;DR: I built Lighthouse PHP Framework because modern frameworks got too complex. It lets you handle forms in views (like PHP int...

Why I Built Allos to Decouple AI Agents From LLM Vendors

Allos is a Python SDK for building AI agents that can switch between OpenAI, Anthropic, and more with a single command. Allos is b...