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I built a Chrome extension because I couldn't stop opening Twitter between Pomodoro sessions
Let me be honest about something embarrassing. I've read Deep Work . I've read Atomic Habits . I had a colour-coded Notion workspace that would make a…
Prompt versioning: how I learned the hard way
Prompt Versioning: How I Learned the Hard Way Three weeks before a client demo, I pushed what I thought was a minor tweak to a production prompt — cha…
Lean4 Might Be the Missing Piece in AI: Why Theorem Provers Are Suddenly Everywhere
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. Star Us to help devs discover the project. Do g…
AI tools that respect your time
The AI Tools Tax: Why Most AI Tools Steal More Time Than They Save Last Tuesday I spent 47 minutes getting a Claude response into a format my downstre…
AI translation: post-editing best practices
AI Translation Post-Editing: What Nobody Tells You Until You've Burned a Client Last year I watched a senior developer ship a localized SaaS product t…
Building a personal AI prompt library - mistakes I made
I Built a 400-Prompt Library and Used Maybe 12 of Them Six months into building my prompt library, I had 412 prompts across 11 folders, a color-coding…
I Built a Speech-to-Text Tool Because Sometimes Typing Just Gets in the Way
The Problem Wasn’t Writing It was getting the words out. Sometimes I had: A quick idea Meeting notes A reminder A rough draft for a post And I knew ex…
How I'm Building a Multi-Agent Crew for AI Coding Supervision (Cipher Update)
After months of experimentation, I realized one generalist AI isn't enough. So I built Cipher — a crew of 7 specialized agents, each with their own pe…
Your AI Agent Needs a Manager, Not a Superhero
Your finance team is trying to close the books. Data is scattered across ERP, spreadsheets, and email threads. There are journal anomalies to analyze,…
How to build a second brain with Obsidian and Claude Code (step by step)
Six folders, one context file, a memory directory, and a handful of slash commands. The exact setup, in build order. TL;DR A second brain fails when n…
Why Artistic QR Codes Silently Fail (And How I'm Trying to Fix It)
So I have been building a free browser-based QR code generator for the past few months. It supports custom gradients, image overlays, and different do…
I built a TUI dotfile browser in Go – here's why and how
RiccardoCataldi / dotty TUI dashboard for browsing and previewing dotfiles in your home directory. Fuzzy search, tree view, zero config. dotty Termina…
I was wasting 10 minutes every Claude session. So I built a fix.
Every day I use Claude.ai for real work — writing specs, refining prompts, making product decisions. And every single day, the same painful ritual bef…
AI coding assistants are creating mass dependency and we're pretending it's productivity
Using Copilot feels a lot like driving a Tesla. It might be quietly eroding your ability to code without it. A couple of months ago, I realized someth…
Building a Python Script or Automation Tool? Let's Fix Your Backend Bugs.
Need Help Getting Your Automation Scripts to Run? Hey community, Writing a Python script to automate a repetitive task is a great feeling—until you tr…
Top CLI AI Coding Agents to Use in 2026
AI coding tools have moved way past autocomplete. Today's CLI agents read your entire codebase, plan changes across files, run tests, and even open pu…
AI Coding Tools Compared: Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude Code vs Gemini CLI
AI coding tools are no longer just autocomplete. In 2026, they are becoming coding assistants, terminal agents, code reviewers, and sometimes full wor…
The AI Test Report Said 97.3% Coverage. The Client's Lead Engineer Asked One Question. The Room Went Silent.
Based on real QA scenarios. About what happens when AI-generated metrics replace real testing, and the quiet engineer in the back row has been running…
The Self-Improving Sales Process: The Compounding Effect, Applied to Sales
The modern sales org is not designed to learn. It is designed to report what happened after the fact. That made sense when humans had to inspect the w…
The Real Cost of Building AI Agents: A Brutally Honest Breakdown of Time, Money, and Sanity After 100+ Hours
Everyone's building AI agents in 2026. The LinkedIn posts are glowing. The Twitter threads are inspirational. "I built an agent that does X in 30 minu…
I Built a VS Code Extension to Track My Coding Time — And Kept Your Data 100% Local
I Built a VS Code Extension to Track My Coding Time — And Kept Your Data 100% Local Tags: vscode, productivity, opensource, webdev I never really knew…
The Day I Stopped Thinking Like a Developer and Started Thinking Like an Owner
Early in my career, I thought being a good developer meant writing clean code, closing tickets, fixing bugs, and delivering features on time. And to b…
Self-Hosted Affiliate Tracking Software for SaaS: Own Your Data, Own Your Growth
You're building a SaaS. You want affiliates. You sign up for a third-party platform, paste in an embed snippet, and your program is live in 20 minutes…
I Built a Local-First AI Desktop Knowledge Base — Here's What I Learned
# I Built a Local-First AI Desktop Knowledge Base — Here's What I Learned After building docnest-ai — a hybrid RAG engine for Python — the next logica…
You Accumulate Technical Debt When You Skip Code Review. Here's What You Accumulate When You Skip the Human.
You Accumulate Technical Debt When You Skip Code Review. Here's What You Accumulate When You Skip the Human. There's a concept in software engineering…
You Should Skill It: Solving a Year-Old CSS Bottleneck With an AI Skill
There's a certain kind of problem that lives rent-free in your head for months. Not urgent enough to drop everything for, but annoying enough that you…
How Developers Are Actually Using AI at Work in 2026: A Brutally Honest Analysis of 10,000+ PRs, Real Productivity Data, and What Nobody's Talking About
Everyone claims AI makes them 10x more productive. I measured it. The results are more nuanced — and more interesting — than anyone admits. The Uncomf…
You'll not be replaced by AI if ...
There are many reasons why one may not be replaced by AI, not even by a possible future ASI. Here's one reason that may just apply to you! ❤️ You'll n…
You're Using Git Wrong — How Worktrees Will Change Your Workflow Forever
You have a pull request open. Tests are failing. Your PM asks you to fix a production bug — right now. You have two choices: Stash your current work, …