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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
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The Biggest Problem With AI Test Automation Isn't Writing Tests
A few years ago, creating automated tests was one of the biggest bottlenecks in software testing. You needed someone who understood the application, knew how to write Selenium or Playwright scripts,...
Read →Guardrails for vibe coders: PreToolUse rules that stop rm -rf and secret leaks
Originally published at pilothouse.dev/blog/guardrails-for-vibe-coders. Vibe coding works until the agent runs rm -rf on the wrong folder, prints your .env into the transcript, or force-pushes over a...
Read →How to run Claude Code locally on a Mac, free and offline
Claude Code can run on a local model on your own Mac. No API key, no cloud model, no usage limit. I built the open source piece that makes it work, called Claude Code Local, and this is the practical...
Read →Pricing Flag Rollbacks — Choosing Real-Time Metrics Dashboard Tools Safely
The least complex tool that can answer “should I roll this pricing rule back?” is usually the right starting point: a metrics store with a query API, a dashboard, and alerts tied to the decision. A li...
Read →NATS JetStream vs Apache Kafka vs Apache Pulsar: Latency SLAs, Throughput & Multi-Tenancy
NATS JetStream vs Apache Kafka vs Apache Pulsar: Latency SLAs, Throughput & Multi-Tenancy Executive Summary & Decision Matrix All three systems are durable, replayable lo...
Read →How to Prevent Duplicate POS Sales from Skewing Inventory with Python and SQLite
A point-of-sale register sells two pairs of boots. The inventory worker deducts two units and commits the change. Then the worker crashes before it acknowledges the message. When the worker restarts,...
Read →Lovable Data Leak 2026: 24,664 AI Apps Exposed 80,000+ User Records via Supabase
The $0 Security Breach: How 24,664 AI-Built Apps Leaked Your Passport Number A Cloud Security Analysis of the Lovable/Supabase Data Exposure The Hook In November 2026, security researchers scann...
Read →Your Automated Tests Passed. Can You Prove They Tested the Right Thing?
There's something I've always found strange about automated testing. Teams spend enormous amounts of time trying to make their tests pass. But they spend considerably less time questioning what a pa...
Read →Where should a small studio launch its next Android app? A data experiment on 9,644 Google Play apps
A market report for My MobApp Studio, written up as a scientific experiment. Code: Jupyter notebook my_mobapp_studio.ipynb. 1. The question Our studio has decided to build a new mobile app...
Read →The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens w...
Read →Modern CSS Might Make Your Front-End More Complex
Replacing JavaScript with a modern CSS feature can simplify a piece of code while making the wider application harder to reason about. Gabriel Shoyombo explores what happens when logic is split betwee...
Read →What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produc...
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