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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...
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What We Actually Work With
A lot gets said about models. Hardly anything about the surroundings. Yet in daily work the surroundings are what decide. What is described here is not a product and not something we sell. It is the...
Read →The Hook System — Blocking AI Mistakes with Structure
This is chapter 4 of my book **Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude Code* — a field guide to turning Claude Code from a coding assistant into an agent that remembers, verifies its own work, and k...
Read →How Freebuff, AgentRouter, OpenRouter, and Experiential Labs Give You Free AI Models (And the Business Tactics Behind It)
Frontier AI models are expensive to call directly. A single day of heavy Claude or GPT-5 usage in an agentic coding loop can rack up real money. But a small cluster of gateways and coding-agent produc...
Read →The Overhead Ratio Is Lying to You — I Built an AI Tool to Prove It
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built GlassPocket — a tool that argues against the "overhead ratio," the dominant heuristic people use to judge charit...
Read →Your prompt system has no tests, and that is why you cannot tell it is broken
Tags: ai, python, testing, showdev Code fails loudly. A prompt system fails in silence, and it fails while still producing something that looks completely fine. I found this out the slow way....
Read →Karibu Give; USSD Micro-Philanthropy for the Next Billion Givers
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Karibu Give (Swahili for Welcome, Give) is a USSD micro-donation platform that works on a kabambe phone(feature...
Read →Local Embeddings vs. API Embeddings — Why I Chose sentence-transformers
Every RAG pipeline needs to convert text into vectors. The question is where that conversion happens. You have two options: run an embedding model locally on your own hardware, or call an API that ru...
Read →Handover: small charities know what hurts, not what skill they are missing
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Handover takes a plain description of what is going wrong inside a small charity and works out the role that wou...
Read →You Aren't Choosing an AI Tool. You're Choosing Who Gets Paged at 2 AM.
Part of AI Leadership in the Real World — how leaders turn scattered pilots into governed, adopted, measurable capability. TLDR: A support agent doing 50,000 chats a month needs ~3.5 FTE and $500k+...
Read →Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
Designing for agentic AI requires attention to both the system’s behavior and the transparency of its actions. Between the black box and the data dump lies a more thoughtful approach. Victor Yocco exp...
Read →How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes. Brought to you by Measuring UX Impact, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vita...
Read →Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities....
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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