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Tracing paper, Wikipedia, and agent PRs

The thing my dad kept telling me at 8. The thing my history teacher kept telling us at 15. The thing I kept not getting until I started merging PRs my coding agent wrote.

#ai-agents~9 min read

Dec 23

2025

Building CLI Tools and Letting Claude Operate Them

A workflow that changes how we think about AI coding assistants: build small, focused CLI tools, then let Claude run them.

#claude~3 min read

Nov 27

2025

AI Coding Assistants Are Blind. I'm Giving Them a Map.

Your codebase has no map. That's why AI assistants grep, guess, and break things. Cartographer gives them a spec to follow.

#ai-tools~1 min read

Oct 15

2025

8 Ways to Make LLMs Behave

A quick rundown of 8 practical techniques to control and get predictable results from Large Language Models.

#llm~2 min read

Sep 11

2025

AI Doesn't Mean You Can Skip Testing. It Means You Need Better Tests.

AI's non-determinism and hidden failure modes are making traditional testing obsolete. It's time to shift from 'does it work?' to 'does it behave?'

#testing~6 min read

Aug 14

2025

MCP-Ready Websites: Building the Analytics.js for AI Agents

Instead of AI agents learning to scrape websites, what if websites could speak directly to agents? I'm proposing a JavaScript SDK that makes any website natively compatible with MCP-based agents.

#mcp~4 min read

Aug 13

2025

Build Like Everyone's Using a Screen Reader (Because They Are)

AI agents are hitting the same accessibility barriers that screen reader users have faced for decades. The solution isn't new tech—it's the semantic HTML we should have been writing all along.

#accessibility~3 min read

Jul 19

2025

How I Automated Case Tracking for Lawyers Using Public Data

Public data is technically available, but rarely accessible. Here's how I turned a closed system into something usable.

#api-integration~3 min read

Jul 18

2025

AI Can Generate Fake Documents. Digital Signatures Are the Only Defense.

Any document can be faked in seconds now. The real question isn't 'Can I detect fakes?' It's 'Can I prove this is real?'

#ai-tools~3 min read

Jul 18

2025

How AI Can Transform Document Processing in Economies Like India

Real talk about using OCR, NER, and LLMs to handle India's document chaos. What works, what breaks, and why it matters.

#ai-tools~6 min read

Jul 7

2025

Using Depth-First Search to Transform Nested QuickBooks Data - And Why DSA Isn't Just for Interviews

When working with accounting APIs like QuickBooks, you often get deeply nested data. Here's how a classic DFS algorithm became the perfect solution for real-world data transformation at Creditflow.

#algorithms~4 min read

Jul 4

2025

Why Our Game Crashed When Users Switched Apps

How we debugged a production crash at HashCube that only happened when Android silently killed our Cocos2d-x game in the background. A deep dive into mobile lifecycle edge cases.

#debugging~5 min read

Jun 1

2025

Building My Blog with Claude Code in 10 Minutes

I asked Claude Code to add a blog to my Next.js site. Ten minutes later, I was writing this post on that very blog. Here's how it went down.

#ai-tools~2 min read

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all dispatches.the full archive.

Tracing paper, Wikipedia, and agent PRs

Building CLI Tools and Letting Claude Operate Them

AI Coding Assistants Are Blind. I'm Giving Them a Map.

8 Ways to Make LLMs Behave

AI Doesn't Mean You Can Skip Testing. It Means You Need Better Tests.

MCP-Ready Websites: Building the Analytics.js for AI Agents

Build Like Everyone's Using a Screen Reader (Because They Are)

How I Automated Case Tracking for Lawyers Using Public Data

AI Can Generate Fake Documents. Digital Signatures Are the Only Defense.

How AI Can Transform Document Processing in Economies Like India

Using Depth-First Search to Transform Nested QuickBooks Data - And Why DSA Isn't Just for Interviews

Why Our Game Crashed When Users Switched Apps

Building My Blog with Claude Code in 10 Minutes

all dispatches.the full archive.

Tracing paper, Wikipedia, and agent PRs

Building CLI Tools and Letting Claude Operate Them

AI Coding Assistants Are Blind. I'm Giving Them a Map.

8 Ways to Make LLMs Behave

AI Doesn't Mean You Can Skip Testing. It Means You Need Better Tests.

MCP-Ready Websites: Building the Analytics.js for AI Agents

Build Like Everyone's Using a Screen Reader (Because They Are)

How I Automated Case Tracking for Lawyers Using Public Data

AI Can Generate Fake Documents. Digital Signatures Are the Only Defense.

How AI Can Transform Document Processing in Economies Like India

Using Depth-First Search to Transform Nested QuickBooks Data - And Why DSA Isn't Just for Interviews

Why Our Game Crashed When Users Switched Apps

Building My Blog with Claude Code in 10 Minutes

all dispatches.
the full archive.

all dispatches.
the full archive.