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The receipt landed in my GitHub inbox on a Monday morning. Subject: important changes to your Copilot plan. Body: starting June 1, every Copilot subsc…
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Cursor wrote 14 tests for my feature. Here's what it couldn't see.
Updated April 2026 Last week I let Cursor generate the test suite for a checkout feature I'd just shipped. It wrote 14 AI-generated tests in about 30 …
The browser-agent control plane: scope, audit, handoff, rollback
Most browser-agent demos still ask a capability question: Can the agent use the browser? That question made sense early on. A browser is messy. Pages …
5 MCP Servers Every AI Developer Should Know About in 2026
You've heard of MCP (Model Context Protocol). You've maybe even configured one server in Claude Code or Cursor. But the ecosystem has quietly grown fr…
GStack: Turn Claude Code Into a Full Engineering Team
The first time you type /office-hours into Claude Code with GStack installed, something strange happens. The AI stops acting like a helpful coding ass…
I built a shell script that sets up your entire AI coding agent workspace in 2 minutes
Every time I started a new project with an AI coding agent, I was doing the same thing. Opening a blank repo. Writing CLAUDE.md from scratch. Explaini…
How Rules and Skills Actually Work in Claude Code
If you have spent any time configuring an AI coding agent, you have probably figured out that rules and skills are different things. Rules are always …
5 Markdown Files That Tame Non-Deterministic AI in Your Engineering Org
Your AI Coding Agent Has No Memory. These 5 Files Fix That. Picture this: two developers on the same team, same repo, same AI coding assistant. One ge…
Claude Code hooks: the half of Claude Code nobody uses
I was halfway through writing this post when I decided to fact-check myself. Opened ~/.claude/settings.json , expecting three or four hooks I'd forgot…
Your Phone as a Terminal: One Command, One QR Code, No SSH Client
It happens a few times a year. I'm away from my laptop, a deploy is stuck, and I want to tail a log or restart a service. The options all have frictio…
Essential DevTools Every Go Developer Should Know
Essential DevTools Every Go Developer Should Know Go ships with a powerful standard toolchain that many developers underestimate. Beyond writing code,…
Stop Setting Up Your Machine Like It's 2015
You Lost Two Days Last Month and Didn't Even Notice New MacBook. Fresh Linux server. A reinstall you've been putting off. You open Terminal and start …
Most SEO Audit Tools Are Broken for Modern Websites. Here’s How We Fixed It.
Most SEO audit tools are fundamentally broken for modern web apps. They analyze HTML that users never actually see. If you're auditing a React or Next…
Stop setting up json-server for every prototype. There's a faster way.
You're building a frontend. The backend isn't ready. You need one endpoint that returns a list of users. So you do what you always do: npm install -g …
10 Best Open Source Projects Every Developer Should Know (Including One You've Never Heard Of)
Most developers know the big names. Docker. Postgres. VS Code. But there is an entire layer of open-source tooling that most teams still rely on paid …
5 cron expression mistakes I made before reaching for a builder
Cron is one of those tools where the syntax looks obvious until you read your own expression a week later and have no idea what it does. Here are 5 mi…
I Let an AI Agent Supervisor Run Unattended for 19 Days. Here's What the Telemetry Says.
I shipped 13 releases of my AI agent supervisor in 14 days while the supervisor was running it. For 19 days — March 22 to April 10 — Batty managed our…
What Every AI Coding Tool Gets Wrong (And What to Do About It)
Part 3 of the AI Coding Tools Deep Dive . Parts 1 and 2 covered every tool and how to run them free. This one asks the question nobody's asking. I've …
The Norman Door Problem in AI Developer Tools
The Norman Door Problem in AI Developer Tools In The Design of Everyday Things , Don Norman describes a door that confuses people because the handle a…
Why Your Multi-Agent AI System Needs a PAX Protocol
Why Your Multi-Agent AI System Needs a PAX Protocol When I started running a multi-agent AI system — six specialized agents coordinating autonomously …
Implementing semver 2.0.0 from scratch in TypeScript — no semver package allowed
Implementing semver 2.0.0 from scratch in TypeScript — no semver package allowed semver-cli — a TypeScript CLI that parses, compares, bumps, sorts, an…
Architectural drift with Agentic coding. Here's what I built to fix it.
I've been shipping features with Claude Code for months now. The velocity is incredible — what used to take days takes an afternoon. But something kep…
What Happens After You Vibe Code: Production Observability for Solo Developers
I shipped a feature on a Friday afternoon. Nothing complicated, a webhook handler that triggered a background job. Tested it locally, looked good. Dep…
Why uptime and synthetic monitors still matter in the age of APM
Modern observability—think Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and similar stacks—gives you deep insight: traces, service maps, golden signals, and often rea…
10 Claude Prompts for Faster Debugging (With Examples)
Debugging is not about finding the bug. It is about finding the bug fast. The actual fix is usually one line. Maybe two. The problem is everything bef…
Opik by Comet The Open Source Observability Tool Every AI Builder Needs in Their Stack
I came across Opik during the Commit to Change Hackathon by Encode Club, in partnership with Comet. I had never heard of it before, but after integrat…
I Tried 4 Ways to List My MCP Server. Here's What Blocked Each One.
Last week I finished setting up an MCP server on Apify. The scraper runs, the MCP endpoint works, and I have three actors that seemed like obvious can…
Контекстная амнезия: три агента, три IDE, ноль общей памяти
Представьте: вы наняли идеального сотрудника. Он пишет код как senior, разбирается в архитектуре за минуты, работает 24/7 без выгорания. Но у него одн…