Claude Code Hooks: Exit Code 1 Doesn't Block. 9 of 9 Commands Ran
My guard hook printed BLOCKED: git reset --hard in red text. Then Claude Code ran git reset --hard anyway, and an afternoon of uncommitted work went…
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A Free Random Color Generator I Built for Designers and Developers
Colors are one of those things that seem simple until you need one. "Just pick a nice blue" sounds easy, and then you spend forty minutes cycling th…
Git Like a Ninja: Advanced Branching & Automation Techniques
Introduction If you’ve been using Git for a while, you probably know the basics: add , commit , push , pull . But to truly own your codebase—and to…
Are you migrating from Spectral? Redocly just got something to help you with that!
Spectral has been the default OpenAPI linter for years, and it did serve the community well. It made linting API descriptions in CI a normal thing,…
How to Choose the Best AI Tools for Everyday Productivity in 2026
There is no single "best" AI tool. There is only the best tool for a specific job you do often. A tool that is brilliant at summarizing long reports…
Our lint script tries to lint a directory called lint, and three more configs that point at nothing
Config rots differently from code. Code that stops working throws. Config that stops working usually keeps sitting in the repo looking exactly as au…
How I set up Claude Code: one rulebook, a 12-step relay to use it daily
Claude Code used to feel like a brilliant teammate with no onboarding. Some days: tests first, small diff, asked before pushing. Other days: no test…
Polymarket Trading Bot: Building a Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper - Why Simpler Risk Logic Worked Better
When I started building my Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper, the original idea was simple: Find a high-probability opportunity near the end of a sho…
I merged six checkers into one script. It found a real bug and committed one, on the same run.
I had six separate scripts checking different things about my posts, written weeks apart, each with its own idea of what a post is. This week I foun…
MCP Clients Compared: Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, and Zed
The Model Context Protocol solved the server-side fragmentation problem so thoroughly that a client-side one replaced it: six popular AI tools now s…
I built a Chrome extension that turns bug reproductions into Playwright test drafts
A bug report often says “this button broke,” but the steps that caused it get lost. I built QA Bug → Regression Test to capture one manual bug repro…
Claude Code mods: Minesweeper and testkit
My own harness, the tooling I run around Claude Code, comes with a custom trust score. That trust score decides whether I can leave the agent alone…
A local-first Postman alternative in 2026: what an OpenAPI-native workflow looks like
Postman's core design decision was treating the request collection as the source of truth and syncing it through an account. That was reasonable in…
My writing linter can be defeated by writing more. I measured how much more.
I ran my writing checker over one of my own published posts twice: once on the whole file, once on just the body with the front matter removed. Same…
Direct file URL or preview page: what works better in bug reports?
When I attach a screenshot to a GitHub issue or support ticket, the destination often wants a URL rather than a local file. The next choice is less…
Your agent keeps guessing your conventions. Write the file it actually reads.
Every team I have watched adopt Cursor, Claude Code or Codex hits the same wall in week two. The agent writes plausible code that does not fit the r…
The Real Solo-Founder Leverage Is in the Stack
These articles come from lessons learned while building Eterna Clarity and the operating system I use to run it. If I listed the software and AI sys…
Component Metadata as a Source of Truth for a Design System
A design system starts drifting long before anyone notices a broken component. The first warning signs are usually quieter. The website says a compo…
Building a Cost-Effective, ZDR-Compliant Code Review System with Pullfrog + Ollama Cloud
Thorough code review on pull requests lets you catch bugs early in the development cycle, such as misused libraries and APIs or gaps in the logic. F…
npm publish Ignores .gitignore: The .npmignore Override Rule
A teammate ran npm pack --dry-run on one of our published packages during standup and read the file list out loud. Forty-one files. Two of them were…
CapyToolkit: 45+ free browser tools, each with a how-to guide
CapyToolkit gathers 45+ free browser utilities: hardware diagnostics, developer parsers, security scrubbers, audio tests, calculators, network refer…
Make it right, maintainable, fast, and pretty (in that order)
I don't consider myself a vibe coder. I like reading the code. More specifically, I want to architect a feature, debate about its merits, iterate on…
How to Verify Self-Hosted LLM Tool Specs Before Building
How to Verify Self-Hosted LLM Tool Specs Before Building You've found a promising self-hosted LLM tool on GitHub. The README looks good. The demo wo…
Как разрабатывать фронтенд без готового бэкенда: инструменты перехвата трафика, мокирования и принцип их работы
Всем привет, на связи Дима Котиков! Я все еще люблю разрабатывать под Android/KMP, разбираться с инструментами для упрощения работы и латте на фунду…
node --test: The Test Runner You Already Have Installed
Every new Node library starts the same way. npm init , write two functions, and then spend twenty minutes deciding between Vitest and Jest for a pac…
How I Built End To End Observability Stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jaeger
When an application is running, knowing that it is up does not necessarily mean knowing what it is doing. For example, imagine an API request that t…
Stop debugging Kubernetes at 2 AM with 15 different kubectl commands.
Stop debugging Kubernetes at 2 AM with 15 different kubectl commands. When a pod enters CrashLoopBackOff in production, 80% of your time isn't spent…
Five Languages, One Law
A library gets proven by people using it. A specification is a harder claim to back up: someone else has to build from your rules alone, without bei…
RFLCT: Bringing Runtime Type Metadata to TypeScript 7
If you've built large-scale applications in TypeScript, chances are you've used a Dependency Injection (DI) container. As the creator of InversifyJS…
How to test document management software with 20 real files
Most software evaluations test the happy path. Document systems need a less cooperative fixture set: phone scans, repeated names, signed revisions,…