Stop re-explaining your codebase to every AI agent — `cast-skills`
The annoying part of AI coding tools Every session, the agent forgets: your module boundaries the “every user belongs to an org” rule that lives in no…
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Vision drift: why agentic workflows need workflow auditing
How a distributed, event-sourced issue tracker built with developer ergonomics in mind may have a role to play in the next generation of agentic workf…
Aggregating cron and launchd Into One Dashboard — Without Migrating Either
Originally published on hexisteme notes . If you run a personal fleet of automation on one machine — a handful of cron jobs, several macOS LaunchAgent…
Proof-Adjusted Autonomy: The 90% Agent Is a 61.6% Agent
Every agent demo ends on the same slide: "90% autonomous." Here is the number that slide is hiding: 61.6%. The 90% is real. It measures how much work …
Why I’m building Zbloue: Making complex codebases easy to understand
Have you ever opened a massive repository, stared at the file structure for 10 minutes, and felt like you needed a map just to understand where to sta…
The OSINT Workflow That Finally Made My Notes Useful
I had 3,124 notes, zero answers, and a search bar that felt like gaslighting me. For two years my OSINT system was a digital hoarding problem with bet…
Your repo should be the source of truth, not the platform
Here is a principle I keep coming back to: the canonical version of everything I write should live in a git repo I control, in plain markdown, not loc…
How to handle client scope changes before they become unpaid work
Scope creep usually does not start with a dramatic disagreement. It starts with a reasonable-sounding request: "Can we also add this small thing?" For…
The bugs I could only find by running the thing
Last week I wrote about being bad at discipline and building a tool to compensate — ArDD, a set of Claude Code skills that push a project through arti…
Multi-Agent Systems Need More Than a Prompt
Most multi-agent demos look simple. An agent receives a request, delegates a few tasks, calls some tools, and returns an answer. Then you try to use t…
A Dash of dev.to: My Blog Stats Now Live in the Terminal
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…
EDR Tool Limits Linux Distro Choice on Developer Laptops: Exploring Solutions for Flexibility and Productivity
Introduction The tension between security compliance and developer autonomy is nothing new, but it’s hitting a boiling point in organizations where Li…
AWS Lambda MicroVMs alternative: agent sandboxes in the EU
On 23 June 2026, AWS shipped Lambda MicroVMs : isolated VMs you launch, suspend, resume and terminate through an API, built explicitly for "workloads …
Building for Cognitive Accessibility: How Tech Can Better Support Learners with Intellectual Disabilities
As developers, when we think about web accessibility (A11y), our minds usually jump straight to screen readers for visual impairments, alt text, or ke…
Transcribe Audio to Text Like a Developer: From File to Final Text
You've got a two-hour architecture review sitting in your Downloads folder. Last month, mine was a 94-minute mess where three engineers talked over ea…
How to Transcribe Audio to Text: A Practical Workflow for Developers
You've got a 45-minute meeting recording sitting on your desktop. Maybe it's a podcast raw file, or an interview you did for a project. You need it in…
macOS Tahoe has built-in clipboard history — here's what it's still missing for developers (2026 update)
Updated July 2026, after macOS 26.1 expanded the retention options and WWDC 2026 showed where macOS 27 is headed. Apple shipped a meaningful addition …
Adaptive Thinking Killed My Token Budget Code: Migrating Off budget_tokens
I had a tidy little helper that computed a thinking budget based on input size. Something like "give the model 30% of the context as thinking room." I…
Cybersecurity 101 : Windows Notifications
Introduction So imagine you are focused on your cappuccino-frappuccino doing something very important on you win laptop and then have a cringe attack …
#1. Detach yourself from your code
7 Unconventional (But Surprisingly Effective) Ways to Get Better at Coding Cesar Aguirre Cesar Aguirre Cesar Aguirre Follow Jul 13 7 Unconventional (B…
Stop Writing Boilerplate: How I Automated My Entire Workflow with LLM APIs
Stop Writing Boilerplate: How I Automated My Entire Workflow with LLM APIs You know that feeling when you're about to write the same prompt-engineerin…
My extension "worked" — it just quietly saved half of every conversation
My extension had a bug that's the worst kind: it looked like it worked. You'd save a Claude conversation, open it up, and there'd be your questions — …
Add a rate-limit backstop to your agent's email sending
Most "AI email agent" demos send one email and call it a feature. The agent drafts a reply, fires it off, the screenshot looks great. What the demo ne…
Build a calendar conflict-resolution agent with Nylas
Booking races create conflicts nobody notices until two people show up for the same slot. Two requests land within a few seconds of each other, both p…
Agent's Design — design resources built for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, Bolt & Lovable
Stop shipping the same AI-generated UI If you use Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, Bolt, or Lovable, you've seen it: Inter everywhere purple-to-indigo …
How to Pay for Claude Pro with Crypto When Your Card Gets Declined (2026)
If you've tried to subscribe to Claude Pro and hit a wall at checkout — card declined, "payment method not supported," or a charge that mysteriously f…
From 15+ Manual Deployments to 2 YAML Templates: Scaling Azure DevOps Pipelines for IIS-Hosted Apps
The Problem I manage 8 web applications hosted on a single Windows VM running IIS. Each application has 2–3 deployable components: An Angular frontend…
Run Your Website From the Same Claude Chat That Built It
Everyone can generate a website now. Type a prompt, get a decent page — that part is a commodity. The question nobody's answering is what happens on d…
Every Commit in My Repo Gets Reviewed by a Second AI. Here's What Actually Changed.
My CLAUDE.md has one line near the bottom that I wrote months ago and mostly forgot about until I started actually paying attention to what it does: #…
I Stopped Debugging at My Desk. Here's What Changed
I usually write here about Next.js, caching, and the bugs that steal your sleep. But this post is different. I want to share what happens before I wri…