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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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A practical, no-fluff security checklist for self-hosters. Covers firewall, SSH, containers, secrets, backups — the stuff that actually keeps you from waking up to a ransom note.
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46 tools, one Sanctum token, three abilities. Claude Code now manages my whole portfolio without me ever touching the admin panel.
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From v1 in 2021 to v5 in 2026, what actually changed in Filament, what broke, and why it became my default Laravel admin panel.
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Most authentication advice is broken. Here's how I build auth systems that don't get hacked, don't lock users out, and don't fall apart at scale.
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Laravel Brain renders your entire Laravel app as an interactive node graph — routes, controllers, queries, the lot. Here's what it nails and where it leaves you wanting more.
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I run an agency and freelance on the side. Here's the honest truth about cost, quality, and communication when picking between a freelancer and a web design agency.
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Zed 1.0 just shipped — a Rust-built, GPU-rendered editor with AI agents baked in. Here's what works, what doesn't, and whether it's time to ditch VS Code.
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Two open-source VS Code extension starter kits — one React 19, one Svelte 5 — both wired with TailwindCSS v4, TypeScript, esbuild, routing, and working webview↔extension messaging. Clone, rename, ship.
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A practical guide to wiring Zustand into a Svelte or SvelteKit app. The wrapper pattern, the auto-subscription trade-off, Redux DevTools, persist middleware — and an honest take on when reaching for Zustand actually beats Svelte's native stores.
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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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