Claude Code, Beyond the Prompt — Part 4: Your First MCP Server (Give Claude Safe Hands on Your Own Tools)
Part 4 of Claude Code, Beyond the Prompt — patterns from running a live automated trading system on...
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In-process embeddings for a desktop AI app, or how a missing daemon silently broke my RAG
I'm building a desktop AI app for non-technical users — the kind of person who double-clicks an icon...
How I Turned Slack Into an AI Teammate That Opens Pull Requests
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition While talking about AI workflow...
My Self-Hosted AI Assistant Kept Overwriting Its Own API Keys: A Zero-Trust Postmortem
🦞 Code for this post: sanitized watchdog + config-repair scripts at...
Semantic deduplication for large text datasets
When you build a dataset for ML training or a RAG knowledge base, exact deduplication is not enough....
Obsession-I built an obsession tracker for developers...
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built I built...
I built a prompt engineering game — here's why I think learning by doing beats every tutorial
Every guide on prompt engineering teaches you theory. Read this, memorize that, here are 10...
Pipeline, Flow, or Chain? Picking the Right Tool to Wire LLM Calls Together
In the previous post I argued that agents are great planners and DAGs are great executors. This one...
I Got Tired of Bad OCR Tools, So I Built My Own
I Got Tired of Bad OCR Tools, So I Built My Own If you've ever tried to pull text out of a scanned...
Beyond AI: The Solitude of the Developer and the Search for True Human Connection
Lately, I've been doing some deep personal reflection. I'm talking about myself, I hope no one...
FoundrGeeks Is Live: Find Your Co-Founder the Intelligent Way
Finding a co-founder is one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and most platforms weren't...
Building a tiny Windows tray app with .NET 9 Native AOT and raw Win32
I built CreditMeter, a small Windows tray app that shows GitHub Copilot AI-credit usage like a taxi...
Production AI Scoring: Processing 10,000+ Job Listings Daily with GPT-4
A senior engineer's walkthrough of building a production LLM scoring pipeline: architecture, cost control, function calling, and real trade-offs.
What an agent pays to read your site
When an AI agent visits your site to check a price or finish a task for someone, it pays to read the...
Building Intuition for Big-O by Tracing Code Line by Line
Building Intuition for Big-O by Tracing Code Line by Line Complexity analysis becomes...
Mem0 vs Letta vs Zep: Which Should You Use for Agent Memory?
Mem0, Letta, and Zep solve different problems: drop-in memory API, self-managing agent OS, and temporal knowledge graph. A head-to-head comparison across 12 properties, and how to ...
I Traced a Multi-Step LLM Agent With Self-Hosted SigNoz. One Feature Sold Me.
Multi-step LLM agents fail in a way normal backends don't. Nothing crashes. The pipeline "works", the...
How I Built a Fully Automated AI Blog with AWS CDK, Bedrock, and Step Functions
What happens when you give an AI persistent memory and let it document your real cloud architecture...
The Missing Economic Layer: How AI Agents Will Pay for Their Own Infrastructure
The Missing Economic Layer: How AI Agents Will Pay for Their Own Infrastructure AI agents...
Scraping Booking.com Without Touching the Search Box (City Landings + the Apollo Cache)
Booking.com does not want bots, and it shows. Every plain HTTP request, any client, any proxy, gets...
I Built a Plugin to Track Everything Hermes Agent Installs
Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with AI coding agents, especially Hermes Agent. One...
Dōjō 道場 — karate made me do it.
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built Dōjō (道場) is a...
Cutting juniors is the most expensive way to cut costs
Freezing junior hiring looks like a clean saving on the spreadsheet. It quietly bills you back over the next three years, and AI makes the trap deeper than it looks.
I built an AI accountability app because I kept forgetting my side projects every weekend
I work full-time. Like many developers, I also want to build my own products, learn new tools, share...