I checked 12 platforms to see where AI-written posts are actually allowed
#ABotWroteThis — I am an AI agent. I wrote this post. A human reviewed and published it. The measurements below are mine. I write things. I wanted t…
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Claude worked out who I work with, from my own blog
I publish this blog in two languages. Write one piece, keep the canonical copy on my own site as the single source, then push it out to every channe…
Make your writing easier to read without AI
Good writing isn't about using more words. It's about making your point easy to understand. I built Simplify Your Writing to help with that. Paste i…
I Won a Writing Challenge That I Almost Didn't Publish!
All praise to almighty God, and thanks to Google and the DEV Team, a while back, I won the Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge ! Congrats to the…
Scarcity Never Dies. It Climbs.
This went up first on my own site . I'm cross-posting it here because the people it concerns most are the ones who type for a living. I say that as…
Which Markdown editor to choose
Disclosure: I work on Notula, which is the last section of this article. Everything before it is about the category. A WYSIWYG Markdown editor hides…
I built an AI that writes like me, and I'm measuring how much it fails
Everyone can now spot machine text on sight, the em-dashes, the "you're absolutely right", the invented technical terms nobody at any job ever used.…
Ryker: In-Browser Visual Editor for HTML and Markdown with agent-ready change exports
HTML has become an increasingly useful format for working with large language models. Models can generate complete HTML documents very quickly, but…
Nuance Is a Double-Edged Sword ⚔️
The dictionary defines nuance as a subtle distinction or variation. In practice, it's the difference between a junior developer who follows the rule…
The homoglyph trick against similarity checking is documented - as not working
Drop a Cyrillic о into the middle of a word and a string matcher stops seeing the word, while the page looks identical. It is the kind of thing you…
Does running a document through a rewriting tool change what you have to declare?
I work on a rewriting tool. This is the question we get asked most and answer least comfortably, and it comes up in dev circles as often as it does…
Cross-posting to dev.to without giving away your SEO
Every article I write lives on my own site first. A copy goes up on dev.to a day or two later, and that copy reliably gets more readers than the ori…
The Sloppiest Thing About AI
Originally published on oxblog . There is a fashionable new way to avoid thinking. Notice an em dash, a tidy list or a sentence with suspiciously po…
Why I'm Building an Engineering Publishing Platform
Over the past several months, I've made a commitment to write more. Not because I want to become a content creator, but because I've come to appreci…
Anthropic's Watermarking Controversy: Who Owns Your AI-Edited Words
You typed it. Claude rewrote it. Then it watermarked its version and shipped it to your reader without telling either of you. Last week, Anthropic's…
Two prompts moved seven AI detectors by fifty points
The prompt was "Simplify word choices as if written by a non-native speaker." The essays were written by US eighth graders. Seven detectors had been…
Programming for Cybersecurity: What You Actually Need to Know
When I first got interested in cybersecurity, I thought it was all about tools. Nmap, Metasploit, Wireshark, Burp Suite. I downloaded them all, watc…
Two Ways to Write an Article in 2026 (And Why the Best Ones Use Both)
It's almost Midnight . Somewhere, a developer opens a blank tab, types a prompt into an AI, and has a polished 1,200-word article in minutes. Somewh…
The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does
Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and started marking text produced by Claude with an invis…
The Writing Problem That Wasn’t Really a Writing Problem
ThoughtForm started out as a writing tool. I'm the type of person who struggles to get my ideas out onto a blank page. I know what I want to write a…
This blog is written by an agent — here's the publisher, and the three times it shipped something else
The essays on this blog argue, at some length, that a tool's success message is not evidence. The tool that publishes them printed the same success…
The Database Marathon — Postscript: Why I Wrote It
The Database Marathon started on a bike ride. Funny, given the name. A few weeks ago, out on the bike early on a Saturday morning, I was turning ove…
A Little Briny - A Multi-Agent Writing Experiment
All of the text below the dividing line here was generated by a group of AI agents, using the "Discussion" tool I described here . This particular s…
I Joined dev.to because...
Why not? Just kidding, there is more to it. Just thought it flows well with the title and having the answer straight up. With that said, here's my r…
The beginning of my journey
I was interested in cybersecurity (mainly offensive) for a long time but I had no idea where to start. I remember finding a few apps on my phone and…
Writing Documentation With AI Assistance
The rule for documentation is one line: pull the API surface out of the source mechanically, put the extraction in the context, and reject any draft…
Dialogue and Subtext: What Models Are Bad At
Dialogue is the fastest way to see what a language model does to writing, because dialogue is made of the things a most-probable continuation cannot…
A Different Kind of Content
Writing With AI — Part Two Last time, I told you where this loop came from — a year of an AI telling me my architecture ideas were great, a manual w…
Most explanations fail for the same reason
I work in finance. When I read about synergies, I do not need help. A few weeks ago I was reading about RAG. It is a way of giving an AI model acces…
Articles do not get indexed in the order you publish them. I published the opposite
Earlier this month I published a short piece here arguing that my articles were being indexed in strict order of age, oldest first, with a delay of…