I Built an App to Steal $50M Back from Claude Code
If you'd told me a year ago that good manners were costing me money, I'd have laughed. I'm a developer. I use Claude Code every day — debugging, refac…
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7 AI Gateway Platforms for Enterprise AI (And How They Compare)
Building LLM-powered applications starts simple. You pick a model, connect an API, and ship a feature. Maybe it’s a chatbot, a summarizer, or an inter…
Moving Beyond Official MSAL: A Better Way to Handle Entra ID in Next.js
Microsoft's official MSAL libraries are powerful, but they were not built with the Next.js App Router in mind. Developers attempting to integrate @azu…
How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin
How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin Security is one of those things you don't think about deeply until so…
When I Tried Doing Everything With AI, It Backfired
There was a phase where I started pushing AI into everything. Writing with AI. Planning with AI. Coding with AI. Research with AI. Even thinking throu…
Why We Banned 'Within the Realm of...' From Our AI Game Descriptions
A small portal's accidental brush with Google's scaled-content-abuse algorithm — and the 11-rule prompt change that fixed it. TL;DR We run a 6,800-gam…
How I Revamped a Local Cram School Website Using AI (Claude, Gemini, and Codex)
Introduction I recently took on the challenge of modernizing the website for my parents' cram school in rural Japan. As an IT professional specializin…
Supabase Database Functions Guide — Serverless Logic with RPC and PL/pgSQL
Supabase Database Functions Guide — Serverless Logic with RPC and PL/pgSQL Supabase Database Functions let you move complex business logic into Postgr…
Self-hosted blockchain node: DIY vs Chainstack Self-Hosted
Getting a blockchain node running isn't the hard part. The hard part is everything that comes after — keeping it synchronized, updated, monitored, and…
How I Built Expiring Links With Zero Backend (React + TypeScript Only)
Most "expiring link" tools work the same way: generate a link, store the destination and expiry in a database, check the database on every click, redi…
Weekly Wins: Celebrating Your Successes and Lessons Learned
Weekly Wins: Celebrating Your Successes and Lessons Learned Let’s be honest: most engineering teams are stuck in a cycle of sprint planning, standups,…
Win Big with Google Cloud NEXT '26: $1,000 in Prizes for the Best Cloud Stories
Win Big with Google Cloud NEXT '26: $1,000 in Prizes for the Best Cloud Stories Google Cloud NEXT '26 is just around the corner — and this year, they’…
Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge: Dive In For Up To $1K!
Google Cloud NEXT '26 Writing Challenge: Dive In For Up To $1K! Google Cloud NEXT '26 is just around the corner — and with it comes the Writing Challe…
Free Shopify Alternatives I Actually Set Up for Real Stores (Not Just Tested in a Sandbox)
TL;DR: The $39/month Basic plan isn't actually your problem. The problem is what happens three weeks after launch when you realize abandoned cart emai…
How I Built an AI Document Ingestion Pipeline
Symport is an AI document ingestion pipeline that turns a phone photo of any paper document — receipt, EOB, prescription, utility bill — into structur…
Building a Context-Aware AI Chat Without a Vector Database
You can ground an AI chat in your own data without a vector database by assembling the relevant documents directly into the system prompt before each …
Designing Demos That Don’t Lie: A Demo Engineer’s Guide
There’s a special kind of dread that comes from watching a demo you know will never survive first contact with a real codebase. On the surface, it loo…
I built Agent Shield an open-source traffic control layer for AI coding agents.
The idea is simple: AI agents send a lot of stuff over the network: prompts, code snippets, logs, tool output, telemetry, sometimes secrets. Most of t…
Bridging 533K Dubai Land Department transactions to 1,387 buildings — developer naming is the real problem
When I started building Ghost Workforce — a Dubai real estate intelligence dashboard — I assumed scraping the Dubai Land Department (DLD) was going to…
ayat saadati — Complete Guide
saadati-toolkit : A Developer's Essential Companion As a developer, I've spent countless hours sifting through various libraries and writing my own sm…
From Beginner to Job Placement: My 6-Month Web Development Journey with Programming Hero
In today's fast-evolving digital world, web development has become one of the most valuable and in-demand skills. But like many others, my journey did…
The Forgotten Joy of `node app.js`
There used to be a moment, ten years or so ago, when you could go from "I have an idea" to "I have a running web server" in about thirty seconds: // a…
Why We Use useState in React — Explained Simply with Real Examples
Hey! Let me ask you something before we start. You built a counter in plain JavaScript. You clicked a button. The number went up. It worked. So when y…
I Stopped Paying for Subtitle Services After Running Whisper in a Browser Tab
Last Tuesday I needed subtitles for a 12-minute product demo. The video was in English, the audience was international, and the deadline was two hours…
I compared 4 Chinese AI models against GPT-4o and Claude — the price gap is absurd (2026)
While OpenAI and Anthropic dominate English-language AI discourse, Chinese AI labs have been shipping cutting-edge models at a fraction of the price. …
Building a Universal Drafts System in a VS Code Extension — Part 2: Sync, UI & Remote Drafts
In Part 1 , we built the Draft type, DraftsService , and the save/upsert flow. Now for the interesting parts: loading a draft, keeping the Markdown ed…
Automation is a trade-off
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about abstractions . I’m revisiting it here with AI-assisted coding in mind, because I see similar issues arising…
How I built an AI-enabled GitHub discovery tool
I am always in search of great GitHub repositories. I'm interested in learning new frameworks or tools, discovering niche but well-maintained projects…
How to Build a Safe DEV.to Publishing Workflow
How to Build a Safe DEV.to Publishing Workflow Tired of scrambling at the last minute, proofreading your article for the tenth time, only to find a br…
Production Checklist for Node.js CLI Tools
Production Checklist for Node.js CLI Tools A CLI can start as a quick script and still end up running important production work. When that happens, th…