Try It: A Working Assessment-First Course
Eight posts ago the claim was that the AI-education industry is building the wrong product — chatbots students ignore, while the thing that actually m…
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Handling Lazy-Loaded Content in Automated Screenshots
You set up Puppeteer, navigate to a page, call page.screenshot() , and the bottom half of your image is blank placeholder boxes. Welcome to lazy loadi…
A Verdict Is Not Evidence. Test Is Where I Learned the Difference.
The call-order change came back pass-with-risk. I read the recommendation, saw it had a name and a reason, and felt the task close. Then I looked at t…
We shipped faster. The debt did too.
You open a file you have not touched in months and your first instinct is to read it like it belongs to someone else. Not because it is broken. Not be…
Stop Asking AI to "Write Code". Teach It How to Work.
Most developers use AI like autocomplete. The best developers use it like a software engineer. Over the past year, AI coding assistants have become pa…
Ponytail teaches your AI agent to write less code on purpose
Ponytail's whole pitch is that your AI agent writes too much code, and the fix is a seven-rung checklist that makes it stop sooner. The repo personifi…
OpenAI's Patch the Planet Bets the Bottleneck Is Patching, Not Finding
The conventional framing for AI in cybersecurity goes like this: AI finds bugs, humans fix them, everyone is safer. That story stopped being true a wh…
See Through Any Web App
For most of software's history, writing code was the bottleneck. Today, understanding it is. AI can generate thousands of lines in seconds. Frameworks…
CodeGraph Review 2026: This MCP Server Cut My AI Agent's Token Waste by 47%
You know that feeling when you're watching Claude Code or Cursor explore a big codebase, and it just keeps... digging? One grep, one find, one Read fi…
This Week in AI: Claude Goes Dark, SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B
This Week in AI: June 12–18, 2026 Six days. That's how long two of Anthropic's most capable models have been offline because of a single letter from t…
An AI Agent Is a Hammer. The Think Phase Is Where You Aim It.
The agent runs. The code appears. The feature is not what I wanted. Not because the model was wrong. Because I was vague. Speed Was Never the Moat Bef…
7 Open-Source AI Projects Developers Need [June 2026]
Originally published at kunalganglani.com — read it there for inline code, hero image, and live links. Open-source AI projects are the tools, framewor…
Moving From Chatbots to Agents: Testing OpenAI Operator
For months, we’ve treated LLMs like fancy autocomplete engines. You prompt, you wait, you copy-paste the output into your terminal. OpenAI’s Operator …
agentic workflows are being domesticated by actions
GitHub's Agentic Workflows preview has the kind of headline that makes people reach for the wrong conclusion. Natural language Markdown can turn into …
I Had 6 Side Projects Open in One Browser Window. Here's What That Was Costing Me.
I Had 6 Side Projects Open in One Browser Window. Here's What That Was Costing Me. I counted once, on a normal Tuesday. 41 tabs, one window, six diffe…
AppQuickSwitch: Keyboard-Driven App Launcher for macOS and Linux
I've built AppQuickSwitch, a utility for macOS and Linux that lets you launch or switch to applications using your keyboard. On Linux, it can also run…
Verify Rsync Operations with a New Integrity Test Script
I've built a small script to help verify rsync operations. The goal is to provide a straightforward way to confirm that your rsync commands are workin…
Why "Available on All Platforms" Usually Means You're Excluded
AI tools keep promising to democratize access - but if your team runs Linux, you already know that promise has some fine print. The Quiet Gap Between …
Building a Micro-SaaS Empire: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating and Monetizing Open-Source Developer Tools
Building a Micro-SaaS Empire: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating and Monetizing Open-Source Developer Tools Turn your side project into a profitable bus…
The Five Hooks That Change How You Ship With Claude Code
The dotfiles piece from May 22 named hooks as one component of a personal AI stack and moved on. They deserve more than a passing mention. Hooks are t…
Your Personal AI Stack Is the New Dotfiles
Every senior engineer who has shipped meaningful work in the last thirty years has carried a personal dev environment with them. Emacs configs, vim pl…
Claude Code Hooks: Security Gates for Agent Workflows
Claude Code hooks turn agent preferences into deterministic workflow gates. Instead of asking an LLM to remember "do not run risky shell commands" or …
Claude Opus 4.7 vs 4.6
The price page hasn't moved. Five dollars per million input. Twenty-five per million output. Identical to Opus 4.6. Run the same Claude Code call on b…
6 Firecrawl Alternatives for Developers in 2026
Your pipeline scrapes 10,000 pages through Firecrawl. A third come back as failures—access blocks and challenges, empty responses from SPAs that loade…
I Built a Company Intelligence MCP — SEC Filings, Patents, Domain Data in One Tool
If you're building AI agents that need to research companies, you know the pain: SEC data lives on EDGAR, patents are on USPTO, domain whois requires …
Why Python Still Matters in an AI-Driven Coding World
In an age where AI slings lines of code faster than you can say 'syntax error', you might find yourself asking, 'Why bother with Python?' Let’s break …
m0lz.01: Does it make sense to me?
Does it make sense to me? That is the bar I wanted for m0lz.01. I do not need another content calendar, another notes app, or another agent that says …
Best Local AI Coding Tools for Indie Hackers in 2026: Ollama vs LM Studio vs Ollama Cloud
Originally published at devtoolpicks.com Claude Max costs $100 a month. Cursor Pro costs $20. For a solo developer building a SaaS, that adds up to $1…
MCP Servers for Claude: What We Learned Testing Them
What We Set Out to Build In early 2026, we started wiring Model Context Protocol extensions into our automation pipelines. The premise was straightfor…
Tokenmaxxing: Codex + Claude Code Operator Stack 2026
In May 2026, four independent surfaces named the same pattern in the same news cycle. YC Lightcone called it tokenmaxxing — one founder plus an agent …