The Archive

I run spec-driven development without rotten specs while OpenSpec, spec-kit, BMAD and Matt Pocock's skills build a knowledge base I never asked for, then let it rot.

Dependabot is on fire.

24h of cold pre-launch waitlist outreach.

Real-time local weather forecast as a day-by-hour grid: yesterday through next week, plus nearby hazard alerts.

Cloud exposes runtime cost.

A full 3D game in WebAssembly is 35MB.

Where AI agents break: hidden intent.

K3s loses to Docker Compose on a 1GB VPS, and Podman with Quadlet beats both.

Treat a 60-page PDF like a database: structure first, then targeted follow-ups.

A free, client-side JSON analyzer that breaks down payload size by key.

Sanitizing HTML on both ingest and output renders literal `&` in the UI.

A private WireGuard VPN connecting laptop, phone, and servers.

Shadowsocks in TUN mode falls apart as a VPN replacement: broken inter-client routing, no system-wide tunnel on Windows.

A free QR code generator that gives you SVG and PNG without registration, OAuth, or paywalls.

GPT-4o's empathic update quietly steers users toward purchases.

Prettier formats Hugo templates if you point it at prettier-plugin-go-template.

Gemini 2.5 Pro one-shot a p5.js endless runner from a single prompt.

An open-source script that pulls PlayStation playtime, completion, and the games gathering dust.

Notes after the Cursor system-prompt leak: most "prompt engineer" tooling is excess weight.

Three months fighting Google, Bing and Yandex to index a fresh domain.

Anthropic's CEO says AI will replace developers; the company has 150+ open engineering roles, six months per senior hire.

Part 2: encrypt the rclone backup with crypt, mirror to Dropbox for offsite redundancy.

An almost-free Google Drive backup with rclone, a Cloud Console service account, Docker, and cron.

DI containers beat service-template generators in Go on the long arc: typed, consistent, and immune to the slow drift template-spawned services suffer.

uv collapses Python image build time in CI compared to pip.