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Essays

December 2025

  1. Claude Code Skills vs Slash Commands: Which One to Use

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  2. I Spent Weeks Confused About Claude Code's 5 Concepts. Here's the Mental Model That Finally Clicked.

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  3. I spent years on Kubernetes. Now I'm betting against it.

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November 2025

  1. Why Your AI Wakes Up Every Morning With No Memory (And how to fix it)

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  2. I Watched AI Generate a Perfect Todo App in 3 Minutes. Then I Spent 3 Days Fixing It.

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  3. The Junior Dev Paradox: We’re Speed-Running Past the Tutorial

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October 2025

  1. When Claude Code Goes Down: A Meditation on Modern Dependency

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  2. How to Secure Your Vibe-Coded Project (Before It Secures You)

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  3. 10 Ways to Waste Time and Money with AI Agents: A Field Guide to Self-Sabotage

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  4. The Indie Dev Edge in the Age of AI

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  5. You should probably ditch your IDE

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  6. Be prepared to throw away your code

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  7. What every indie dev should master before asking AI to build for them

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  8. Your SaaS Will Break — Here’s How to See It Coming

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  9. A Saner Way to Use AI for Coding

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  10. You’re Making Your SaaS Harder Than It Needs to Be

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  11. If I Were Starting a New SaaS Today, I'd Do This

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  12. Don’t write a CD pipeline yet

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  13. The Hidden Tax Slowing Down Indie SaaS Builders

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  14. How indie devs can vibe code fast without sinking their own ship

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