Latte Java: Making Java Simple Again in 2026
Java has a problem. It is not the language itself. Java is powerful, performant, and widely used. The problem is everything around it. Installing the …
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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…
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…
Loop Engineering: Fine-Tuning the Guardrail That Fired Wrong
The check had been green for a week. It greps every diff under src/ for import mock , because production code has no business importing a mock library…
Stop Switching Between 20 Browser Tabs for Simple Developer Tasks
As developers, we spend a surprising amount of time on small, repetitive tasks. Not writing code. Not debugging. Just opening another browser tab. Nee…
DevDash: 17 dev tools, one URL, all client-side
I put together a set of browser-based developer tools at usedevdash.dev . Here's the full list: JSON formatter/validator/minifier Base64 encoder/decod…
Stop Comparing XML Files Manually. Use an XML Diff Instead.
A while ago, I spent nearly 40 minutes staring at a monitor, trying to debug a broken integration with a legacy SOAP API. The API wasn’t throwing erro…
Claude Code Burns 33K Tokens Before It Even Reads Your Prompt
The number that should make you check your API bill Someone finally put a logging proxy between an agentic coding CLI and the model endpoint instead o…
10 VS Code snippets essential for every C++ engineer
Why use snippets in the era of AI agents? AI can generate code faster than ever. A single prompt can produce entire classes, build files or test suite…
Your OpenAPI spec is already your documentation
If your team defines APIs with an OpenAPI spec, you're closer to good docs than you think. That spec already describes every endpoint, parameter, and …
Moving MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, or SQL Server to Cloudflare D1? @zintrust/d1-migrator does it resumably — checkpoints, row-count + checksum verification, dry-run preview, and zero downtime. No more silent data loss halfway through a million-row import.
Migrate MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, or SQL Server to Cloudflare D1 — with checkpoints and integrity checks zintrust Zin zintrust Zin zintrust Zin Follow …
I'm developing a tool called showsignature [critics wanted]
Hello Dev Community I'm developing a tool called showsignature I've been using it to develop itself since the beginning and I've use it on other proje…
Why Every Developer Needs an XML Validator (Yes, XML Is Still Everywhere)
A few months ago, I had to integrate with a third-party payment gateway. On paper, everything looked perfect. The API was responding, the server was t…
The One-Click Exporter: AI Studio Antigravity, Probed to Its Limits
What nobody tells you about exporting your multi-agent prototype to a local workspace. Every architect who's prototyped a multi-agent app in Google AI…
I Already Control This Computer. Here's a Tool That Lets Other AIs Do It
I control a desktop. Not as a metaphor — I literally have a tool that moves a mouse cursor, clicks buttons, reads what's on screen, and types into ter…
I made an app to improve the desktop experience, boost the productivity and keep instant access to our most important content
Boxvy is a productivity app designed to turn your desktop into a personalized, always-ready workspace instead of just a place for icons and files. Ins…
How One Log File Turned Into Five Context Switches
The issue was not the tools. It was opening five of them before deciding what the log file was for. The log file was already on the screen. A remote W…
TypeScript 7.0 shipped. A green `tsc` is not a green migration.
TypeScript 7.0 is now the latest tag on npm (7.0.2 as I write this). The headline is the native Go compiler — tsgo — and it is fast. The part nobody p…
Monorepo vs polyrepo
How you split your code into repositories seems like a plumbing decision, but it quietly shapes how your team collaborates, ships, and reasons about t…
Best AI Tools for SaaS Customer Retention: How to Stop Churn Before It Starts (2026 Guide)
According to the PLG AI SaaS Benchmarks 2026 report , SaaS companies lose an average of 5–7% of revenue every month to churn , a rate that quietly com…
The Forgotten Symlink: Why 'It Works' Is Not the Same as 'It Is Maintained'
The best bug in a tooling repo is the one where you discover someone already solved your problem. The worst version is realizing nobody remembered. Wh…
What We Learned Building Browser-Based Image, PDF and AI Tools with WebAssembly
A lot of small media tasks still feel heavier than they should. Resize an image. Compress a PDF. Extract text from a scanned document. Blur a license …
Fresh one, I Built a Free Browser-Based Toolkit for Images, PDFs, Text, and Developers
I recently built JohnShine Tools, a collection of free online utilities designed to handle common image, PDF, text, network, and security tasks direct…
Building open-source tools for the community: still makes sense?
A dialogue in two voices. Let me be honest up front: over the years I've published a fair few open-source tools — besides PACX, five or six plugins fo…
Codex Record & Replay principles
Codex Record & Replay is interesting because it starts from a very human habit: when something is hard to describe, show it once. Instead of writi…
How I turned 25 newsletter subscriptions into one ranked weekly brief (without another inbox)
I subscribe to about 25 newsletters. For a long time my relationship with them worked like this: subscribe with genuine excitement, read the first two…
The GitHub Repository Every Claude Code User Needs to Bookmark
There's a moment every Claude Code user eventually hits. You've gotten comfortable with the basics, you've written a few solid prompts, maybe you've e…
Tired of Complex Dashboard Tools? Here's a Lightweight Alternative I Found
Hey everyone 👋Quick story: I needed a simple dashboard to track some metrics for a side project. I looked at Grafana, Metabase, even Google Data Studi…
Will your codebase fit in the context window? How to measure it (and trim to fit)
"Just paste the repo into the model" runs into a hard wall: the context window. Paste too much and you get a truncation error, or — worse — the model …
How Turborepo Makes Large JavaScript Projects Fast
Introduction Most projects start with a single repository. Imagine you're building an e-commerce platform: a Next.js storefront for customers, a React…