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Articles on AI coding tools, self-hosting, web development and the apps I use every day. When a post quotes a price, a benchmark or a version number, it's the one I checked while writing it.
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GitHub moved the Copilot runtime from TypeScript to 832,000 lines of Rust with agents, for about $120,000 in tokens. Here is why C# and Go lost, and what the benchmarks show.
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Astro 7 rewrote the compiler in Rust, moved Markdown to a Rust pipeline, and shipped Vite 8. Builds are 15 to 61 percent faster. Here's what to upgrade now.
About the writing
Most posts start as a problem I hit on client work or my own projects that week.
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Claude Code setups, permission modes and plugins, plus the security side, like the npm hack that hunts AI tool keys.
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VPS pricing, Docker, Coolify and object storage, with 2026 prices instead of the numbers older guides quote.
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JavaScript, .NET and front-end choices, like when HTMX beats React and what RFC 10008 changes for APIs.
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The plugins, launchers, browsers and terminal tools I actually use, and what made me switch.
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What the posts cover and how they differ from the devlogs.
Building web apps with Laravel, Next.js and Node, the editors and tools I use every day, AI in day-to-day coding, design systems, and running software on my own servers.
A post is about one topic and reads on its own. A devlog entry is a day of work on one build, and the entries for a build read in order, bugs included.
Yes. Email safi.abdulkader@gmail.com or use the contact page.
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