Six articles, 200 views. So I read the feed's source code.
Six articles in two months. About 200 views. Total. Here is the full table, because a postmortem without numbers is just a mood: # Article Views React…
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From Silent Reader to 25 Articles: What 3 Months on DEV Taught Me + AMA
📌 TL;DR Three months ago, I decided to start writing consistently on DEV. Twenty-five articles later, I've learned far more than how to write better. …
Knowing What’s Under the Hood Helps
I’m not a car guy. I can drive them, but I don’t know the first thing about fixing them, and not much about maintaining them. My son, on the other han…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Cross-Vendor Audit: What It Caught in My Own Model's Writing, and What It Got Wrong
Originally published on hexisteme notes . I write these engineering notes with one main model, and until recently I also reviewed them with that same …
The GitBook migration trap
Most teams that decide to leave GitBook — or Confluence, or a folder of Markdown, or any docs tool — reach for the same first step: export everything …
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 projects…
AI Fabricates Maxims: Caught Twice by Human Review in One Day
At the end of my previous article on Pieter Levels , I wrote that pre-publication review had actually caught a handful of AI-specific rough spots: "in…
Stop Fixing Your AI Writing Prompt. Make These 5 Decisions First
I used to fix weak AI drafts by asking for better prose. "Make it clearer." "Make it more persuasive." "Make it sound less generic." The output improv…
I Shipped an Angular v22 Book Update with a Crew of AI Agents. Here's the System
I just shipped a major update to my book Mastering Angular Signals - a brand-new Angular v22 Edition . Not a typo pass: an updated manuscript, a compa…
Why AI Still Can't Write Well and Which Half of That Problem Is Actually Yours
I built a 36-pattern checklist to catch AI writing tells in my own drafts, calibrated against everything I've published. So when a theory about why AI…
How I built Enkrateia: an AI platform that generates complete books and evolved into a social system
I’ve been working on a project called Enkrateia, an AI-powered platform designed to generate complete books from structured user inputs. The idea is s…
How We Sourced a 12-Part Tech Investigation So Every Claim Survives a Hostile Fact-Check
I just shipped a 12-part video series on cloud economics - depreciation schedules, lock-in, licensing disputes, bundling cases. The kind of material w…
Frequency Bias in LLM Coding Assistants: Fairness Risks for Software Development.
Thinking about how AI coding assistants shape developer choices, and the hidden biases influencing programming decisions. >_< cross-posted from …
How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language
I'll never forget my first post-mortem meeting. I was a junior engineer, and the server had crashed at 3 AM during a holiday sale. The report started …
The Last Mile of Software Is a Sentence
Every developer knows the quiet satisfaction of a clean merge, a green test suite, and a system that does precisely what it was designed to do. Far fe…
What I learned testing AI text detectors in 2026 (they still get it wrong)
If you build anything that touches user generated text, sooner or later someone asks: can we just detect the AI written stuff and filter it out? I spe…
Two majors, one README, one demo: two cheap design reviews
Writing the docs is what surfaced both mistakes. There’s a meta-lesson in there about how docs are the cheapest design review you can run, but that’s …
A Practical AI Voice Workflow for Creator Tools and Product Demos
AI voice tools are easy to test in a casual way: paste a few lines, pick a voice, export an audio file, and decide whether it sounds good enough. That…
How to Start Technical Writing as a Developer: A Practical Guide to Sharing What You Know
I did not start writing because I loved writing. I started because I was stuck. There was a bug I could not solve. I spent hours searching, reading ha…
35 ChatGPT Prompts for Technical Writers: API Docs, User Guides, and Release Notes Done Faster
Technical writers live at the intersection of complexity and clarity. You translate engineering specs, API references, developer guides, and internal …
AI in Journalism
I've been running an experiment. I wanted to see if AI could generate opinion articles that while written by AI capture my personality and perspective…