Open Source & Cloud
Floci: Develop Against AWS Without a Cloud Account?
Explore Floci through an upload workflow, its LocalStack migration guide, and the checks that distinguish convenient local development from AWS compatibility.
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Notes & ideas
The Blog
Notes on software, experiments, and the process of building things.
AI & Developer Tools
Worktrunk: Keep AI Coding Tasks from Colliding in Git
Explore worktree management through two concurrent changes, with attention to local environments, shared services, review, and safe cleanup.
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Open Source & Developer Tools
Milkman: An Open-Source Alternative to Your API Client Subscription?
Evaluate Milkman's request workbench through a realistic collection migration, including authentication, environments, plugins, and sharing.
3 min read
Blockchain & AI
x402: What Happens When an AI Agent Pays for an API Call?
Follow an HTTP payment flow and examine the spending limits, settlement decisions, and recovery behavior an agent-powered product still needs.
3 min read
AI & Cybersecurity
AI Finds Bugs Faster. Can Your Team Patch Fast Enough?
Turn a security headline into a concrete response: identify exposed services, apply the right fix, verify the deployed runtime, and keep recovery evidence.
4 min read
AI & Product Engineering
If AI Can Rebuild Your App, What Is Your Moat?
A copied interface raises a useful product question: which parts of your advantage survive when implementing the visible features becomes easier?
3 min read
Blockchain & Cybersecurity
Exchange Hack or Blockchain Failure? How to Read a Crypto Incident
Use Binance's October 30 update to separate confirmed incident facts, preliminary explanations, and the different security layers behind a crypto transfer.
4 min read
AI & Infrastructure
The AI Boom Has a Physical Bottleneck
Follow an AI request beyond the API to understand why chips, electricity, cooling, and usable capacity belong in the same conversation.
4 min read
AI & Product Engineering
Is Your AI Product Useful When the Hype Disappears?
Evaluate an AI feature through repeat use, accepted outcomes, review effort, and a worked cost example instead of relying on launch attention.
4 min read
Crypto & Payments
Stablecoins Meet Existing Payment Infrastructure: Circle and ACI's Latest Collaboration
Circle and ACI's October 27 announcement offers a concrete way to examine stablecoin settlement, integration work, and the evidence needed to judge adoption.
3 min read
Blockchain
Ethereum's Hoodi Upgrade Delay: What Developers Should Understand
What the October 22 Glamsterdam postponement says, who it affects, and how to keep application testing aligned with a changing network schedule.
3 min read
AI & Design
Impeccable: Give Your AI Coding Agent a Better Design Vocabulary
Turn vague requests for better UI into focused design work, with Impeccable's critique, polish, and audit vocabulary as a starting point.
4 min read
AI & Open Source
DeepTutor: What It Takes to Run Your Own AI Study Workspace
Explore DeepTutor through a concrete learning workflow, with attention to source grounding, model configuration, and the real cost of running it.
3 min read
Open Source & Engineering
Can Coolify Replace Your Managed Hosting Subscription?
A practical way to evaluate Coolify: deployment convenience, server ownership, recovery work, and the costs that remain after the subscription.
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Open Source & Productivity
AppFlowy as a Notion Alternative: What Would Make Switching Worth It?
Evaluate an open-source workspace through the documents, collaboration, migration, and operating costs that matter to your actual workflow.
3 min read
Open Source & Analytics
Umami: Does Your Website Need a Paid Analytics Dashboard?
Start with the decisions your website needs to support, then evaluate Umami's self-hosted and cloud options against those requirements.
3 min read
AI & Engineering
No Source Code? REA Gives Your AI Agent a Way In
Explore Reverse Engineer Anything through Notion, DX-Ball, Aegis, Touhou, a CTF challenge, and community video demos—with evidence and source links.
12 min read
AI & Engineering
From AI Prototype to Production: What Still Needs Work
A practical walkthrough of permissions, double bookings, retries, monitoring, and recovery using a hypothetical AI-built booking app.
7 min read
AI & Engineering
AI Can Write Your Code. Can It Review It?
A practical look at AI code review: real bugs, false alarms, missed issues, and the evidence to ask for before merging.
7 min read
AI & Engineering
Beyond Code Generation: Using AI Across the Software Development Lifecycle
Follow a hypothetical appointment-booking feature from an initial request through design, implementation, release, and maintenance.
10 min read
AI & Automation
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Qwen: What Do You Get for the Price?
A developer’s comparison of API prices, independent benchmark charts, and the cost of getting useful work done across five major AI model families.
8 min read
AI & Automation
Before You Build an AI Agent, Map the Workflow
A practical way to break a process into inputs, decisions, actions, and exceptions—and find where AI can actually help.
7 min read
AI & Automation
Jev AI: Small Decisions, Bigger Possibilities
Jev AI explained: how TypeSafe’s decision model compares with LLMs, its reported speed and pricing, and real demos from the developer community.
8 min read