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How I turned repeated AI coding mistakes into Oxlint rules, measured the existing mess, and made touched files clean up their own warnings.

How we used AI, profiling, adversarial tests, and repeatable Go benchmarks to cut hot-path work and make filtered log writes up to 77x faster.

A simple CLIProxyAPI setup for using Codex-backed models from Claude Code and Conductor.

Connect Factory Droid to your Claude Max and OpenAI Codex subscriptions using CLIProxyAPI as a local OAuth-to-API-key proxy.

A behind-the-scenes look at happymode: a native macOS menu bar utility that switches system appearance using sunrise/sunset (no external APIs) or custom daily times, with a weekly preview and permission-aware UX.

Personal portfolio website showcasing backend engineering work, technical writing, and projects.

A practical deep dive into happycontext, a Go wide-logging library that emits one structured event per request with support for slog, zap, zerolog, and net/http, gin, echo, and fiber integrations.

A detailed build log of cloning PlanetScale's pg_strict in Rust.

Theme management, Mermaid diagrams, and infrastructure improvements.

Updated for Zustand v5: persist state in the URL hash so users can copy, share, and restore app state across sessions.

Compare PostgreSQL 18 native UUIDv7 with custom UUIDv7, ULID, and TypeID implementations using real benchmark data, index locality tradeoffs, and practical primary-key recommendations.

Learn how to break down text effectively for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

Start Apache Kafka locally with Docker Compose and KRaft mode, avoid ZooKeeper, configure advertised listeners, and verify the broker with Kafka UI.

Deploy a Next.js app without Vercel using standalone output, Docker, and a production-ready Node server that can run on any VM, container host, or cloud.

Learn how to build an app with Next.js and Electron with Server Components support

Create best Dockerfile for Golang, optimize your Dockerfile for Golang and make it blazingly fast!

Features, enhancements, and changes.

A comprehensive SaaS application to enhance the review system of eCommerce sites.