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A tour of my dotfiles
Over the years, I’ve built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It’s a backup Read more…
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving from Zig to Rust, after years of fighting memory safety issues in a codebase that mixes GC and manual memory management. He also shares how Claude Read more…
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CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk
CLAUDE.md isn’t documentation, it’s working memory. A practical approach to keeping it lean and focused instead of letting it grow into an unreadable 300-line dumping ground. Read more
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Charging AI Agents Per Request: A Practical Guide to the Machine Payments Protocol
Agentic commerce is a buzzy term, but is still pretty abstract for developers asking what they can actually build today. This post explains MPP through a working Laravel example, and introduces the new square1/laravel-mpp package. Read more…
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Leave a failing test before you go on vacation
Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off. A failing test, a well-written TODO, and a slow first day back Read more…
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UUIDs, ULIDs and Sqids: A Practical Deep Dive
A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs. Read more
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How AI is changing (the way I do) UX
Nick Houtman shares how AI is reshaping UX work: clients arrive with better prototypes, common patterns get safer and more generic, and real research still matters most. Read more
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Your Laravel routes can carry metadata now, and Flare shows it
Laravel now supports attaching arbitrary metadata to routes, and the latest laravel-flare client shows that context in error reports and performance traces. Read more
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Everything About the Context Facade
A deep dive into Laravel Context, from request metadata and automatic log enrichment to hidden context, scoped values, queues, scheduled commands, and internals. Read more
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Storied Colors
A lovely growing index of colors, each with its own provenance, chemistry, and often grim history. Beautifully made, and exactly the kind of rabbit hole I enjoy falling into. Read more