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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...
Read →The feed
I gave Claude Code a team. Then I caught it grading its own homework.
An AI team that never gets tired also never gets embarrassed. Part 1: I made Claude Code think before it codes Part 2: ... then I gave it a team Part 3: this one. There is a sentence that started...
Read →No Password for My Agent: A Zero-Secret Architecture Pattern
The Classic Paradox: Trusting AI Agents with Hardcoded Secrets Whenever teams start integrating autonomous AI agents into their core infrastructure (GitLab, MariaDB, OpenProject, Portainer), the firs...
Read →Why Your Files Should Never Leave Your Device: Browser-Based File Processing
Most file tools on the internet work like this: upload, process on a server, download. The moment you upload a contract, a design file, or a video, a copy of it exists on someone else's infrastructure...
Read →PicoCTF Substitution0 Writeup — Break a Substitution Cipher with Frequency Analysis
Unlike Caesar, each letter is replaced by a different letter according to an arbitrary mapping (not a simple shift). We solve it by comparing the letter frequency of the ciphertext to the known letter...
Read →The Code Casino
Watching some people use AI for software development right now feels uncomfortably close to watching people gamble. The behavioural patterns seem similar to me. Every time you place a bet, you're cha...
Read →Matching Blood Donors by GPS: The Geospatial Query Design Behind GeoBlood
The naive version, and exactly how it fails Every geospatial feature starts life like this: ` js // do not ship this const donors = await Donor.find({ bloodType: 'B-', isAvailable: tru...
Read →Go with ARM
What is ARM An ARM processor is a chip that follows the ARM instruction set architecture, a set of rules that defines which instructions the processor understands and how it executes them. It's a RISC...
Read →I built the localization checker before the localization. It still missed three defects.
Parlotype's UI was English-only, with the copy baked into markup and C#: 211 literal attributes across 26 .axaml files, roughly 200 string literals across 48 view models, plus the tray menu, the dialo...
Read →Watch, don't memorize: I built a free visual way to finally understand data structures
You can read a hundred explanations of a linked list and still freeze when someone asks you to reverse one in an interview. You know the definition. You've seen the diagram. You've even solved the pro...
Read →Using Next.js as a Backend for Frontend (BFF)
When building a modern web application, the frontend often needs to communicate with multiple backend services: Browser │ ├── Auth Service ├── Product Service ├── Order Service └──...
Read →Security news weekly round-up - 11th September 2026
Creativity knows no bounds. But it's up to us to use it in a way that benefits those around us. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to help us with our tasks, but as I said in the last edition, these...
Read →Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for...
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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