I audited 249 of my own AI coding sessions. The problem wasn't lying.
I never scrolled up I use a coding agent every day. I give it a task, go do something else, and come back to a line at the bottom of the screen like t…
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How to Evaluate an AI Video Generator Without Wasting Credits: A Repeatable Test Harness
Most AI video demos show the same thing: A polished final clip A prompt A claim that the result was generated in seconds What they usually do not show…
Termux App Store: A Community Package Manager for Termux on Android
If you use Termux on Android, you probably know the feeling: You find a useful command-line tool on GitHub, but then you have to figure out how to ins…
I Built a Zero-Knowledge Protocol to Prove a Human Typed This (Not a Bot) — Help Me Try to Break It
AI-generated text is no longer distinguishable from human text. That's not a hot take, it's a measurable fact at this point, and it quietly breaks a l…
StayPresent — Keep Your Python Bots Alive Without the Boilerplate 🚀
StayPresent — Keep Your Python Bots Alive Without the Boilerplate 🚀 If you've ever deployed a Discord bot, Telegram bot, or any long-running Python sc…
How to Check If AI Systems Can Find and Cite Your Site (in 5 Minutes)
Co-authored by Rudrendu Paul and Sourav Nandy . Repo: github.com/RudrenduPaul/LLMScout , a zero-dependency, cross-platform CLI that runs 21 GEO/AEO ch…
Building Light: What I Learned After 9 Months
A few days ago, I shared the first public release of Light , a programming language I've been designing and developing over the past nine months. Rath…
How I Built a Peptide Dosage Calculator with Next.js — and Why SSR Matters More Than You Think
A researcher spends 30 seconds doing peptide math before every injection. I built a tool that does it instantly. Here's the surprising thing I learned…
I Built a Chrome Extension to Replace Notion's Broken Web Clipper
Notion's official Web Clipper has a 3.4★ rating on the Chrome Web Store. The reviews tell the same story for years: "go online to save" errors while o…
Your Build Target Is Not an API Contract: Enforcing Baseline with TypeScript
Vite 7 and later use Baseline Widely Available as the default production build target. Now put this in a Vite application: Promise . withResolvers <…
I built a tool to prove my multi-agent harness was worth it. It told me it wasn't.
I spend most of my time on agentic systems, and I had absorbed the same idea everyone else has: a planner improves things, and a panel of drafters wit…
We instrumented an AI agent swarm with SigNoz, and its own telemetry told us we were wrong about almost everything
Built for the WeMakeDevs Agents of SigNoz hackathon, July 2026. Mission Control. The graph is the swarm, the river underneath it is the live span stre…
How Sentry Keeps PromptDev Running Smoothly in Production
Building PromptDev ( https://promptdev.site ), a sandbox for developers to construct, stack, and benchmark system instructions, requires a solid error…
I shipped three AI tools that run entirely in the browser — here's everything that broke
I set myself one rule for a side project: every tool has to run entirely in the user's browser. No file ever gets uploaded to a server. If I couldn't …
I built an eval harness to prove an LLM worked. It proved the opposite.
I set out to have a language model classify integration failures. I built an evaluation harness to prove it worked. The harness proved it wasn't worth…
How I Built a Privacy-Friendly Image Converter That Runs Entirely in the Browser
Converting an image should be a simple task. However, many online image converters require users to upload their files to a remote server. This can cr…
MedSpeak
When I first built MedSpeak , you had to type the shorthand in by hand. That's fine for a demo, but the whole point of a label is that it's already wr…
Why AI-Generated GIS Code Can Run Successfully and Still Be Wrong
Geospatial code has an unusual failure mode: it can execute without errors, produce a clean-looking result, and still be methodologically wrong . This…
How Reading a Design Patterns Book Led Me to Audit My Rust Framework with UML and Merise
I was reading a design patterns book. I got to the UML class diagrams — and I stopped. Because the diagram on the page was describing something Rust a…
MergeForge: Resolve Git Conflicts in VS Code or Cursor Like in JetBrains
Tired of squinting at VS Code’s stacked merge editor? MergeForge brings a JetBrains-style three-pane conflict resolver to VS Code and Cursor — and pai…
I Built a CLI to Use Free Web-Based AI Chatbots for Real Development Work — No API Keys, No Extensions
I wanted to use web-based AI chatbots — Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Qwen — for actual development work, not just Q&A. The free tiers are generous, an…
How a frozenset guard ended a YouTube directive self-contradiction
On 2026-07-07 my YouTube content pipeline generated a contradiction. The daily directive file — a machine-generated Markdown file that tells the scrip…
301 duplicate IDs in the browser, 0 on the JVM: one real bug, end to end
A reader named Ryan left the sharpest comment on my last post. The gist: it was jargon-heavy, kept restating "you have to test the AI's output" in new…
I Built STRMSTRM: A Terminal UI for Searching Movies
I Built STRM: A Movie Search TUI for the Terminal I recently built STRM , an open-source terminal application that lets you search for movies without …
Google Trends ties its data tokens to your IP and it broke my scraper in a way I didn't expect
I just shipped a Google Trends scraper as an Apify Actor ( https://apify.com/swiftscrape/google-trends-fast-scraper ), and the most interesting part w…
I REBUILT MY SITE WITH ASTRO & SANITY
A couple of years ago, when I was deciding which platform to use for web development projects, I was very keen on the idea of using Webflow. It felt l…
Your Application Is Ready... According to Whom?
Over the past few years, AI has fundamentally changed how software gets built. Teams can go from an idea to a working application in a fraction of the…
Three checks that lied to me while building a content extraction API
Three times while building a web content extractor, a passing check told me something that wasn't true. Not a flaky test, not a missed edge case — a g…
Playwright can test Chrome extensions. So why does my AI agent still need my help?
What happens when you let an AI write a browser extension I've been building Chrome extensions with AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, whatever. …
Webhooks don’t care that your laptop is offline
Local development environments and webhook senders operate on completely different schedules. Your application runs when you need it. It may stop when…