Getting involved in developer communities
In my previous posts, I talked about what a developer community is, why it's important and how to build a developer community . Now let's look at wh…
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How to build a developer community
I described in my last post what makes and defines a developer community . If you are a developer wanting to run a developer community, or you work…
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I Built a Voice AI Agent for Pre-Visit Insurance Clearance
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Your Docs Are Doing Your Marketing Now (Whether You Like It Or Not)
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I Reviewed 10 AI Startup Documentation Sites. Here Are the 7 Mistakes I Kept Seeing.
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GitHub Copilot Is Rewriting How You Think About Database Design — And Not in a Good Way
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Building RAG-Powered AI Agents with AgentCore: What the Hands-On Tutorials Don't Tell You
Your vector database is returning results. Your retrieval pipeline is clean. But when you connect AgentCore to your production knowledge base, the a…
The Architect Mode Trap: Why Delegating AI Thinking to Save Money Will Cost You More in the Long Run
You're staring at a blank terminal. The feature is due Friday. Your cursor is blinking, and you've been meaning to write this module for three hours…
The Firestore JOIN Trap: What Google's New Pipelines API Costs You That Nobody's Talking About
Your Firebase function is throwing a Maximum batch size exceeded error for the third time this week. You've got two collections — orders and custome…
DevRel in the Age of AI Is A Search for Meaning
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I Built a Web Chatbot with a Telnyx AI Assistant
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Your production AI agent stopped responding. The logs show a 503. You didn't change anything — but the MCP server you built on Cloud Run three month…
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Ollama's Chinese Model Support Is Real — But Running Kimi and DeepSeek Locally Has a Hidden Cost
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What it takes to build docs worth reading
Treating docs as a product When documentation lives as an afterthought, it shows. Pages drift out of date, examples break quietly, and release notes…
The Rule Hierarchy Trap: How AI Agent Meta-Patterns Are Quietly Eating Your Team's Cognitive Budget
Your terminal is full of red. Three different AI agents are running in production, each with their own rule set, and none of them agree on what "use…
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AI Built My UI in 2 Hours. Then I Spent 3 Weeks Fixing It.
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The Non-Profit Food Delivery Fantasy: What V2EX Reveals About Platform Economics That Western Devs Haven't Figured Out Yet
Your favorite restaurant just closed. Not because the food was bad, not because foot traffic dried up — because the platform took 25% of every order…
Why Your Local LLM Setup Is Costing More Than You Think — And What Happens When It Breaks
You're three hours into debugging a model quantization issue. The GPU utilization is sitting at 12%. Your M2 Max is running hot, the fans sound like…
The Only API Documentation Template Your Team Actually Needs
Last week, I watched a senior dev spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out if an API endpoint was deprecated or not. He had to dig through Slack t…