Canon ships no Mac utility for the Canon G5040. In one session, Claude Code reverse-engineered its maintenance protocol and built me one.

Harness engineering gets agents doing the work. Validation skills are what let me trust that work enough to stop watching every run.

A Lelit Anita pump replacement turned into a silent pump, a pulsor, a new OPV and a naked portafilter, and the best espresso I've made at home.

Living with Portfolio Ticker exposed the gaps — annualized ROI, calendar-year returns, and what happens when you sell. Here is what I added.

My blog's CI has failed on every single push since June 20th. The site kept deploying fine the whole time, which is exactly the problem.

Everyone selling you an EV talks about the driving. Nobody mentions the parking space it requires, or what it does to your electricity bill.

I finally built an Obsidian second brain that stuck — by writing down what my AI agents are and aren't allowed to put in it.

The Fellow Aiden is the most hyped filter coffee maker on the market. After a few weeks with one, the coffee is good — just not 10x-the-price good.

Put shared project rules in AGENTS.md, keep a thin CLAUDE.md that imports it, and leave Skills for verbs — so Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex stop drifting apart.

I stopped pointing the frontier model at my backlog and started using it to write the Skills and guidelines my cheaper models read.

Fresh ginger, lemon juice, and honey is already a drink worth making. Then I started fermenting it, and now I cannot go back.

You cannot prompt AI-generated code into being reliable. What works is what always worked with new hires — guardrails that say no.

I had stocks and ETFs across three platforms and no single place to see them. So I built one, and left it open for anyone else to use.

Installer left the weather-compensation offset at +5. Dropping it to 0 cut heat-pump energy about 21% — same house, same week of March, Shelly numbers.

How we merged three Ionic/Angular/Capacitor codebases into a single Nx workspace so a small team could stop maintaining the same code in three places.

The single-agent model has a ceiling. Claude Code's parallel agents let you split a feature into independent pieces and work like a focused team.

AI makes junior developers look productive on week two. If we train them for speed alone, we hollow out the next decade of engineering judgment.

Three years of AI-assisted development later, vibe coding is real. The thinking is yours, the judgment is yours — the typing was never the point.

Smart home products love to sell you convenience. What they do not mention is that most of that convenience runs through someone else's server.

Finishing the Voron build feels like crossing a finish line. That high is real. It is also misleading — the real project is what comes after.

Old does not mean good enough. What happened when I stopped trusting other people's checklists and kept my Astra OPC running like clockwork.

Agents fill the merge queue faster than humans can read. The constraint moved from typing to verification — and most teams still review like nothing changed.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet was the first time I caught myself delegating context, not lines. AI coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocomplete.

When DeepSeek dropped R1, my first reaction was not hype — it was spreadsheet panic. The comfortable pricing story suddenly had a counterexample.

My house is Wi‑Fi and Shelly end to end. When I finally add battery sensors, I still plan Zigbee first — and Matter as a buying filter, not a rip-and-replace.

When you build your own house you get to make all the decisions. That sounds great until you realize you also have to live with all of them.

Shopping for a Web Application Firewall on a small budget is rough — opaque pricing, call-for-quote tiers, and GDPR clashes with CDN offerings.

How I migrated an Ionic Angular app with 500+ components to standalone using the official schematic, plus the routing and provider fixes that still needed a human.

A small trick that makes app support better — prefill your mailto contact link with device and user info so the helpdesk skips the back-and-forth.

Microsoft wired ChatGPT into Bing and used the waitlist to push Bing onto millions of devices — pure marketing genius in my book.

This is just a list of links related to 3D printing, mainly here for my own reference, but pretty sure you might find something useful in them also.

My Voron bed mesh jumped to 0.32mm and I assumed a warped MIC-6 plate. Calipers said the gantry was out of parallel — fixed without replacing the bed.

Treating software security as an occasional audit is a mistake — small companies compete by making security part of every decision they take.

If you can no longer tell whether ChatGPT or a human wrote a piece of text, what does that do to authenticity and trust in what we read?

Expose a raw array, wrap mutations in methods, or extend Array — three patterns for typed collections that block duplicates and invalid data.

Callable Cloud Function that calls setCustomUserClaims, plus Firestore rules and client checks for a moderator claim.

Open a batch in Preview, Select All, Adjust Size — no third-party app required. Optional ImageOptim pass for web-ready files.

How I went from a modded Ender 3 Pro to building a Voron from 150 separate part orders, and why DIY 3D printing is such a rewarding hobby.

Baking soda plus rubbing alcohol removes laptop sticker residue in seconds after nail polish remover, vinegar, and alcohol alone all failed.

Use performance.mark, performance.measure, and PerformanceObserver to see how slow code actually is on users' devices — not just in the lab.

Turn on git rerere and git remembers how you resolved a conflict — repeated rebases of a feature branch stop asking you to fix the same thing twice.

A small Express middleware that wraps async handlers with timeout and retry for flaky database calls — cleaner than chaining promise-retry.

Typed dev/prod config via OpaqueToken and a NODE_ENV factory so Ionic2 builds pick the right API keys at compile time.

A reusable PresentableControllerMock so unit tests can dismiss modals, alerts, and toasts and assert the page callback.

How I use TypeScript string literals and keyof to make Immutable.js get calls type safe, so property renames break at compile time instead of runtime.

Angular fakeAsync and tick beat setTimeout waits and jasmine.clock for time-based RxJS5 observables in unit tests.

Why I stopped answering questions on StackOverflow, where low-effort posts and point farming are eroding a great platform.

How to delete git tags matching a pattern from origin and your local clone in one shot, using git ls-remote, awk, and xargs.

Hook npm version so Cordova config.xml gets the same semver as package.json in the same commit and tag.

NVM is still the easiest way to install Node.js, switch versions instantly, and migrate global packages when you upgrade.

Accidentally pushed an API key to GitHub? Scrub it from git history with BFG Repo-Cleaner, then force-push — reverting the commit is not enough.

Ionic2 VirtualScroll would not render custom item components — wrap the component in a plain div with *virtualItem until the framework catches up.

Paste highlight.js CSS and script into Ghost Admin Code Injection — no theme file edits required for syntax highlighting.

Build a reproducible TeamCity agent image with Node and gulp from a Dockerfile instead of docker commit on a hand-tweaked container.

One command lists every globally installed npm package and its version — useful when migrating globals to yarn or a new machine.

docker-compose for Ghost plus a custom nginx proxy image — full compose file, nginx.conf, and Dockerfile.

A simple static event class that lets any deeply nested code update the main form's progressbar without passing references around.

I came across a red-team-design.com article showing a simple way to build CSS3 tables with rounded corners and hover effects, so I am sharing it here.

After years on SnagIt I switched to GreenShot, a free open-source screenshot tool with handy capture hotkeys and a built-in editor.

Amazon spends millions on product recommendations, yet its cross-selling emails still can't match a good in-store saleswoman.

Six months of blog silence, two months without an internet connection at my new home, and a rant about paying for service I never got.

Google Apps has no traditional email forwarders, but with a few steps you can configure its Groups feature to forward mail to any addresses you like.

I installed the WordPress app on my Android phone so I can manage posts, pages, comments and stats, and I even wrote this post with it.

Entity Framework returns dynamic proxies whose GetType() breaks generic repositories, so I use ObjectContext.GetObjectType to get the real entity type.