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18 articles on engineering, tooling, and the craft of building software.

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  1. 17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two Months

    From TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.

  2. I Built an AI-Friendly UI Pattern Library

    A UI pattern library where every pattern ships the prompt that rebuilds it, so a coding agent can put it in your codebase instead of you copying CSS.

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  1. Common React Hooks Antipatterns and Gotchas

    How to avoid them for better code quality.

  2. The Simplest CSS Grids

    Copy-pastable layouts for two columns, sidebars, and more.

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Digital Garden

Engineering, opinions, deep-dives, and everything in between.

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Demystifying Tools

Demystifying Tools

Practical walkthroughs of common command-line tools and utilities.

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Demystifying awk

A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.

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Demystifying Git Worktrees

Learn how to work with multiple Git branches simultaneously using worktrees - a powerful feature that lets you check out different branches as separate folders while sharing Git data.

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I, AI is a five-part fiction series about psychodeveloper Lili and AI manager Sophie. Three parts are out; start with Spare Cycles.

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