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Three words pulled a frontier AI model off the internet. The export control meant to protect national security disarmed the people it was supposed to defend.

Running Perplexity's read-only endpoint scanner: zero catalogue findings, sixty-three MCP servers I never installed, and one freshness pattern worth knowing.

What I learned building a markdown second brain with Tolaria, git, and an AI collaborator that helps with capture and structure, not writing the notes for me.

These two plugins made Claude Code easier to use for real engineering work by tightening the loop around context, planning, execution, and review.

What happens when an engineering team goes through an AI-driven identity crisis: the grief, the fracture, and what reorientation looks like on the other side.

I let GasTown build a Toggl TUI. The speed impressed me, but the real insight was watching a Mayor agent shift from solo coder to multi-agent coordinator.

AI doesn't reduce your cognitive load. It concentrates it. That distinction matters more than you think.

A two-run case study of Entire CLI attribution: what the first test left ambiguous, what the prompt-only rerun clarified, and what still needs interpretation.

How I built a local-first memory layer that captures sources quickly and returns compact, source-backed context for AI agents.

A pragmatic guide for engineers and leaders: scale AI coding autonomy by investing in verification, quality gates, and evidence pipelines.

AI got great at coding first because it compounds. The real shift is for anyone who works on a screen: turn intent into output faster and iterate more.

A pragmatic agent stack: runtime + MCP servers for access + skills for repeatable procedure. How to decide what to build where.

Disruptions harm productivity. Strategic breaks with colleagues, however, can refocus developers who are stuck on problems.

A tip for identifying apps in macOS Mission Control when you have too many windows open.

Introducing my typeahead/autocomplete dropdown implementation with a working example and GitHub repository.

Founding teams are a critical component of startup success, and understanding what each member brings is essential to building effective team dynamics.

Problems like this is why I prefer backend development. One browser crashing for what appears to be no good reason...

A Facebook experiment evolved into an intensive work period. Reflections on launching OpenFloor MVP and the power of modern developer tools.

Downtown Las Vegas has introduced a new Q&A platform called OpenFloor, developed by George Diab and Max Aceituno.

I created and published a Meteor package for posting notifications to Slack channels after discovering no existing solution was available.

Max and I have been accepted to The Mill startup accelerator in Downtown Las Vegas. It all began as a Facebook experiment to boost audience engagement.

After gaining access to a local startup's Hackpad workspace, I experienced a significant revelation about team collaboration tools.

Web Essentials extends Visual Studio 2013 with numerous features that web developers have long needed.

Switch from SATA to AHCI for better performance. This post is partly to help me remember, and to save you pulling out your hair.

Image Resizer for Windows is a utility that lets you resize one or more selected image files directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking.

To display the complete directory path at the top of the Finder window in OSX Lion, execute these commands in the terminal.

Deploying ASP.NET MVC applications to IIS6 requires specific configuration steps. This guide addresses common setup issues.

As Christmas approaches, here's a great resource for essential books you should be giving to that special web designer or developer in your life.

Lambda expressions are anonymous functions that can contain expressions and statements, usable for creating delegates or expression tree types.

When modifying table structures in SQL Designer, the management tools may prevent you from saving changes that require table recreation. Here's the workaround.

The idea of having your IDE in the cloud just blew my mind. No more installing gigabytes of software like Visual Studio.

Guidance on calling WCF services from MVC applications isn't clearly documented online. Here's the recommended approach.