They Asked for My AI Rules. But I Could Not Just Hand Them Over.
A team lead announces that the team will start using AI-assisted development. Everyone nods. Nobody asks what that actually means on Monday morning. S…
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I fixed my AI reviewer. Then I kept solving the wrong problem
I've been building an AI-assisted editorial pipeline for technical writing. Notion cards become markdown drafts in the repo, pass through review, then…
Fixing tmux dashboard for coding agents: Mobile Clipboard + 30%
This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone talks about managing LLMs but nobody explains how to babysit them in CLI. Juggling 3+ tmux…
Workflow Series (06): Security — Cross-Step Injection Propagation and Four Defense Principles
Workflow Security vs Skill Security Skill security (Skill Series Article 02) protects a single call : can user input hijack this Skill's behavior? Wor…
Workflow Series (05): Evaluation Framework — Three-Layer Testing and Trace Tracking
Why Workflows Need a Dedicated Evaluation Framework Traditional software testing covers code correctness. Workflows add two layers of uncertainty: LLM…
anything i can imagine
thesis ai is great at helping me make anything i can imagine. if i can picture the answer, the process, or the steps ahead of time, the model can usua…
Adding one field to Notion cost me 2.5 hours. The same change in Tana took 30 seconds.
Adding a single property to a live Notion database with 160 rows isn't a five-minute job — it's a backfill session. I learned this the hard way in wee…
I audited 340 reading captures. Only 20% ever became knowledge I actually used.
Out of 340 captures over 90 days — Readwise highlights, Obsidian quick-captures, browser bookmarks — exactly 68 ever became a note I actually used. Th…
Shelved Projects #1: Windows Automata
Welcome to the first post of my new series, "Shelved Projects" . In this series, I dig into the digital attic to share projects that were technically …
cursor automations for housekeeping and hygiene
quick answer cursor automations are a good fit for recurring housekeeping and hygiene tasks that already have a clear definition of done. i currently …
73% of my context switches came from one mistake: sharing a workspace across two businesses
73% of my context switches last year traced back to a single root cause — not bad habits, not weak discipline, but a Notion dashboard that mixed ad op…
I tagged 34 decision notes in Obsidian over 18 months. Reading them back broke my Notion setup.
34 tagged decision notes. That's all it took to realize my Notion database was lying to me. I run three revenue streams — ad ops automation, two niche…
GitHub Actions adds a background marker, and the linear job stops being the only shape
A small word that changes the rhythm of a job For as long as I have been writing Actions workflows I have been carrying a quiet workaround in my head.…
My 7-step prompt chain failed silently at step 6. Here's what replaced it.
A manual checkpoint outperformed full automation by 35 percentage points. That's the number that changed how I build every prompt chain now. I spent t…
I tracked every async writing block for 90 days. Output nearly doubled — but not how I expected.
Switching from Obsidian-first drafting to Claude-first drafting nearly doubled my usable words per 90-minute block: from ~420 to ~780. That number sur…
My second brain cost me 140+ hours before it saved me anything
35 minutes of daily maintenance, compounded over 8 months, is north of 140 hours — and I didn't see that number anywhere in the glowing 'second brain …
My weekly review clocked 14 minutes median — here's the one structural change that made it stick
Obsidian prompts beat open-ended reflection every time: median review time across 6 weeks was 14 minutes, fastest was 9, slowest was 22 (and that week…
When Code Takes a Break: What Engineers Think About on Silent Days
📌 Overview Today was a "silent day" — no Claude Code sessions, no commits, no code changes. Yet technical work isn't just about writing code. This day…
Workflow Engine NEO trials are self-serve now, and your coding agent can grab one too
You can grab a Workflow Engine NEO trial key yourself now, no email thread. Go to trial.workflowengine.io , type a business email and a company name, …
10 n8n workflow templates I actually use daily — sharing the JSON files
Originally written for r/n8n on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. I see a lot of n8n templates shared here that are either half-baked or…
How I Turned Claude Into a Disciplined Senior Developer (Not Just a Fast One)
A plain-English walkthrough of my Claude Code workflow — written so anyone, including students, can understand what's happening and why. The Problem W…
Getting Started with pg_durable: Durable Workflows Inside PostgreSQL
Modern applications demand long‑lasting workflows that can withstand crashes, restarts, and failures, often relying on external platforms. pg_durable …
System Boundaries: The Difference Between ChatBot, Workflow, Agent, and Harness
System Boundaries: The Difference Between ChatBot, Workflow, Agent, and Harness When people first build Agent systems, they often naturally read them …
gitrelease.mjs file in Nango codebase.
In this article, we review gitrelease.mjs file in Nango codebase. You will learn: gitrelease.mjs file publish workflow gitrelease.mjs file gitrelease.…
CLAUDE.md as a Forcing Function: How Writing a Project Constitution Cleans Up Your Tooling
CLAUDE.md as a Forcing Function: How Writing a Project Constitution Cleans Up Your Tooling If you have been using Claude Code for a few months across …
the guardrails i actually use with ai agents
i argued in ai liberty that as models get more capable they get more confident, and that confidence makes them take liberties such as pushing to a pri…
Vibe Coding Survival Guide for Solo Developers in 2026
This article was originally published on aicoderscope.com In early 2023, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" to describe a new mode of softw…
6 n8n Workflow Patterns for AI Automation (Lead Gen, Enrichment, RAG, Self-Healing)
6 n8n workflow patterns for AI automation (with real examples) After building n8n automations for over a year across different use cases, I started re…
N8N Orchestration: How We Automated 400+ Manual Business Hours
Manual reporting is a silent profit killer. Many teams spend over 100 hours per week cleaning Excel data, generating pivot tables, and manually schedu…
How Engineers and Consultants Lose 15 Minutes Every Morning (And What to Do About It)
You open your laptop. You need the inspection report from last week. You know it exists. You saved it yourself. But where? Was it in the OneDrive proj…