Tag: JavaScript

Web Development Oct 15, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I'm Obsessed With Local AI, and Why You Should Be Too

Three months ago, I handed a client's detailed financial records to a SaaS invoice platform. Within a week, they got a phishing email targeted specifically at their business name and industry vertical. Coincidence? Maybe. But it was enough to make me think differently about where...

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Claude JavaScript

Web Development Oct 12, 2026 • 4 min read

The Open-Source Tools We Actually Need vs. The Ones We're Building for Twitter

I spent last Friday evening staring at my GitHub notifications, watching yet another "revolutionary" project hit 5000 stars in 48 hours. It got me thinking: are we celebrating the tools we actually need, or are we celebrating the tools that generate the most engagement? That's th...

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JavaScript Productivity

Web Development Oct 8, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Thinking About "SEO" and Started Thinking About "Being Found"

Last month, I was debugging why a client's perfectly optimized blog post wasn't showing up in ChatGPT's search results, even though it ranked #1 on Google. I spent an evening digging through their robots.txt, checking canonicals, validating schema markup, all the classic SEO check...

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ChatGPT JavaScript

AI & Machine Learning Oct 4, 2026 • 4 min read

AI Assistants Are Great Until They Need to Actually Do Your Job

I've been watching the OpenAI Dot conversation with genuine interest, and honestly, it hit something I've been frustrated about for months. Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to help me set up a new Postgres migration, and after thirty minutes of back-and-forth, I realized the assistan...

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Claude ChatGPT

AI & Machine Learning Sep 29, 2026 • 4 min read

I've Built Platform Engineering Three Times, Here's What Actually Works

Three years ago, I watched my team waste an entire sprint on infrastructure setup. One of our junior devs needed a staging database. He opened a ticket, waited four days, then the ops team provisioned something that didn't match our production setup. By the time we caught the inc...

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JavaScript UX Design

Web Development Sep 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Buying Error Tracking for Problems Error Tracking Can't Solve

I spent three hours last week debugging a scheduled import job that "worked fine" according to our error tracker. The Sentry dashboard was clean. No exceptions. No alerts. But the job hadn't actually run in six hours, and we only noticed because a client called asking where their...

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JavaScript

AI & Machine Learning Sep 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I Stopped Waiting for My AI to Answer Me

I catch myself doing this at least twenty times a day. I'm in VS Code, reading through some API documentation. I need Claude to explain a function signature. I open a new tab. I copy the text. I paste it into Claude. I wait for the response. I copy the answer. I switch back. I pa...

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Claude LLM

Tech News Sep 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Grinding LeetCode and Start Building: What Actually Gets You Hired in 2026

I failed a system design round last year. Not because I didn't know what load balancing was, I could recite distributed systems concepts all day, but because I couldn't articulate why I'd make certain tradeoffs in a real scenario I'd never actually faced. Sitting across from an int...

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JavaScript

Web Development Sep 25, 2026 • 4 min read

I Rebuilt a WordPress Theme and Realized I'd Been Cargo-Culting Dependencies for Years

Last year, I inherited a WordPress site for a client that was running on a theme with a build pipeline so complex that even the original developer couldn't explain why half of it existed. Tailwind, PostCSS, Autoprefixer, Alpine.js, all for a simple blog theme. When a new WordPress...

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JavaScript UI Design

Web Development Aug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

I Built a Private Health App in the Browser, And I'm Actually Impressed It Works

A few months ago, a friend asked me to help build a health logging app for his startup. My first instinct? Spin up a Node backend, throw it on AWS, use some managed LLM API. Standard playbook. Then he mentioned the regulatory requirements, the compliance overhead, and the fact th...

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