How I Build and Ship Ten Roblox Games With a Shared Engine and Local AI
Ten Roblox games, a web app and a short-video pipeline, all built and run by one person from a single PC. The stack Text generation runs on Ollama w…
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🎑September OSS Recap: 6 Months of "One Commit A Day"
September was a busy month, but I continued showing up and contributing at my own pace. It also marked 6 months of One Commit a Day! What I've Worke…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W19
🗓️ This Week After all the hot weather we had up until last week, the days have suddenly turned much cooler. It finally feels like autumn is here🍂.…
Why I'm Migrating My Blog to Astro
I first joined the DEV community 8 years ago (as of writing) to jump-start my writing journey and get my name out there. Since then, my reading audi…
Valid JSON, Wrong Shape: Structured Output Across Three AI Backends
On March 3rd, 2026, a planning step in our content pipeline asked the model for a list of entities and got back exactly what it asked for. That was…
After the Sprint: A 72-Hour Build Retrospective - Spoiler: It Wasn't Secure
I built Charitas Clew for a 72-hour DEV Weekend Challenge. It worked. I submitted it. And then I did something slightly inconvenient: I kept poking…
I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.
I wrote this article twice. The first version was finished, proofread, and queued to publish. Then someone asked a question about one number in it,…
The Tea on Teamwork: Week One of My i.c.stars Tech Internship
I went into my first week at i.c.stars thinking about technology, code, and systems. The week turned out to be about the human layer instead, and th…
Four Ways a Batch Runner Can Believe It Already Finished
On 16 March 2026 the batch runner for our content pipeline landed in a single commit. That commit already contained a resume flag, a state log with…
You Can Retry a Write. You Cannot Retry an Email.
I run Upwork Scout , a small SaaS that watches Upwork and emails you only the jobs that fit you. The whole product is one cron endpoint. It wakes up…
Nobody Hacked It. The Lookup Tool Just Took a Phone Number.
The first time a client asked me "can someone hack this thing?", I gave a bad answer. I talked about the model: guardrails, refusals, how hard it is…
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE
My Journey from Full-Stack Engineering to AI-First FDE Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Prakash Tank, a Full-Stack Architect and AI Tech Lead with 10+ years of ex…
Your RAG Demo Works Because Someone Picked the Documents
A RAG prototype takes an afternoon. Chunk some documents, embed them, stuff the top matches into a prompt, ship a chat box. It works. You demo it, e…
My AI Content Journey
I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and no edit passes for flow. It might be a bit rough…
First post as a tech-founder-turned-non-technical
Hey fellas and fellies. Im the creator of sociolite.co. A 1.5 year old startup that teaches social skills. And now I'm going to vent about the weird…
🚤OS July 2026 Recap: From Being Intimidated by GitHub Actions to Building My Own CI Workflows
When I first started contributing to open source, GitHub Actions felt like a black box. Seeing a failed workflow on my pull requests was intimidatin…
Traceroute devlog #1
Didn't write a single line of code today. Spent the whole day buried in the PRD and TRD instead, and by the end of it I realized this was somehow th…
Nobody Hands You Day One: Stepping In as CTO on a Live Product Across Three Runtimes
Most engineering stories start at day one with a clean repo. This one did not, and I think the messy version is the more useful one to read. I stepp…
The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace.
AI makes it dangerously easy to look productive. A screenshot can look impressive. A demo can look polished. A generated article can read smoothly.…
I Built CodeComplex: A Real-Time Competitive Coding Platform with AI Rivals and Bug-Fix Arenas
Over the past few months, I've been working on a project called CodeComplex (live at codecomplex.site ). It started with a simple observation: while…
The Most Uncomfortable Thing AI Made Me Realize.
It happened on an ordinary Tuesday night. The kind of night where nothing dramatic happens, but your mind refuses to sleep. I had been staring at my…
DevLog #1: Re-entering the Matrix after years away
I’ve been out of context with my computer science degree for years, and honestly, it feels overwhelming. I want to change that, so I'm starting this…
Naming Lies and Frozen Tails
What we shipped on 2026-07-16 We caught a "Sonnet-canary leak" today that serves as a stark reminder of how dangerous misnomers are in an LLM pipeli…
Building My Home SOC: Why I'm Documenting the Journey Instead of Chasing Tutorials
Cybersecurity has always been my passion, but I found myself jumping from tutorial to tutorial without ever feeling like I was learning the bigger p…
How I use Claude Code and Comet to build and test AI voice agents in a day
Most people think building an AI voice agent means writing a clever prompt. I build these for a living, and I can tell you the prompt is maybe an ho…
How I Finally Stopped Switching Between Ten Different Apps
I've been keeping a journal for about fifteen years now, and the practice has evolved more than I expected. Early on, I tried the fancy apps with al…
My First Post
Big Howdy, I’m starting a blog. That sentence feels weirdly dramatic for what this is to me. The plan is to write about engineering, personal projec…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W13
🗓️ This Week This week, I mainly focused on iOS development 📱. I also tested a small workflow using Codex: organizing ideas, creating a design file,…
The Scorer Was Silently Dropping Half Its Shot Scores
What we shipped on 2026-07-09 Two alerts fired on the same post -- hero_render_fallback on shots 4 and 8, vision_scorer_unavailable on 5 of 12 shots…
I Rolled Back My MCP Skills Experiment. Here's What I Learned
TL;DR I introduced a SKILL layer while improving fare extraction in a MCP-based transit agent. After that, the agent stopped reliably using the MCP…