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AI & Machine Learning Oct 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft's AI Push Is Real, But I'm Not Betting My Stack on It Yet

Last month, I spent two days migrating a client's infrastructure off a single cloud provider because we hit an unexpected scaling limit during peak traffic. The irony? We'd chosen that provider partly because their AI tooling looked promising. Now I'm watching Microsoft tout mult...

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AWS Kubernetes

Web Development Oct 10, 2026 • 4 min read

I Stopped Pretending Kubernetes Is Just About Running Containers at Scale

Two years ago, I deployed my first "production" Kubernetes cluster. It was a disaster waiting to happen, and it didn't even know it. I had pods running, services routing traffic, and everything *looked* fine until 3 AM when a memory leak took down half the cluster because I never...

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AI & Machine Learning Oct 9, 2026 • 4 min read

When Compute Becomes a Public Resource: What NVIDIA's $1B Bet Actually Means for Us

I hit a wall last month. A client wanted to run some exploratory ML work, nothing massive, just probing whether a particular approach would work at scale. The bill for GPU hours came back, and we both stared at it in silence. That's when a thought hit me: what if the researchers s...

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Claude OpenAI

Web Development Oct 9, 2026 • 5 min read

The AI Financing Arms Race Is Making Me Rethink Our Entire Cost Model

I was in a stand-up meeting last week when our DevOps lead casually mentioned we're spending more on inference calls than we budgeted for the entire quarter. Nothing new for any team scaling an AI feature, right? Except this time it hit different. I wasn't hearing about model rel...

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Claude LLM

AI & Machine Learning Oct 8, 2026 • 4 min read

LLMs Can't Do Your Accounting: Why I'm Not Trusting ChatGPT With Financial Logic

I was sitting in a client meeting last month when someone casually suggested we use Claude to validate transaction reconciliations. I nodded politely, but internally I cringed. A few weeks earlier, I'd watched a model confidently flip a positive number to negative while claiming...

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Claude LLM

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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Design & UX Oct 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Skeptical About "Passive" Income (And What Actually Works Instead)

Last year, I spent three months building a "passive income" UI kit. I was convinced it would be my ticket to sleeping while money rolled in. I finished it in May, uploaded it to Gumroad feeling optimistic, and by August I'd made exactly $340. Meanwhile, I'd spent 20+ hours on cus...

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AI & Machine Learning Oct 7, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I'm Suddenly Worried About the LLMs I'm Shipping to Clients

I was building a code review assistant last month when something unsettling happened. Claude gave me a perfect explanation of why you shouldn't mutate state in React hooks. Then I pushed back, confidently, casually, with "actually, I'm pretty sure React handles that automatically n...

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Claude LLM

Web Development Oct 7, 2026 • 4 min read

I Gave Away My Code for Free, And Watched Someone Else Get Rich From It

Last year, I open-sourced a utility library that solved a real problem I'd been wrestling with in production. The documentation was solid, the code was clean, and I released it under MIT because that's what developers do, right? We share. We build in public. We contribute to the...

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LLM Startups

DevOps & Cloud Oct 6, 2026 • 4 min read

I Was Wrong About Kubernetes Swap, And It Actually Matters Now

I spent the last three years telling anyone who'd listen that swap in Kubernetes was a terrible idea. "Just buy more RAM," I'd say confidently, usually while configuring another overprovisioned node pool. Then I got a project involving AI agent workloads, and suddenly my certaint...

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Microsoft's AI Push Is Real, But I'm Not Betting My Stack on It Yet

I Stopped Pretending Kubernetes Is Just About Running Containers at Scale

When Compute Becomes a Public Resource: What NVIDIA's $1B Bet Actually Means for Us

The AI Financing Arms Race Is Making Me Rethink Our Entire Cost Model

LLMs Can't Do Your Accounting: Why I'm Not Trusting ChatGPT With Financial Logic

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

Why I'm Skeptical About "Passive" Income (And What Actually Works Instead)

Why I'm Suddenly Worried About the LLMs I'm Shipping to Clients

I Gave Away My Code for Free, And Watched Someone Else Get Rich From It

I Was Wrong About Kubernetes Swap, And It Actually Matters Now

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