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Hi there! 👋🏻 I'm a Senior Full-Stack Developer oriented on Javascript.

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Writing Your Own Claude Code Skill in 2026: The Practical Guide
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Writing Your Own Claude Code Skill in 2026: The Practical Guide

#ai #devtools #claude #agents
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How to Build Your First MCP Server in 2026: A Practical Developer Guide
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How to Build Your First MCP Server in 2026: A Practical Developer Guide

#ai #devtools #mcp #agents
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I Got Falsely Reported and Banned on X. I Am Permanently Banned on Reddit. I Am Still Building SaaS.
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I Got Falsely Reported and Banned on X. I Am Permanently Banned on Reddit. I Am Still Building SaaS.

#indiehacking #startup #saas #buildinginpublic
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Infrastructure as Vibe: What Comes After Infrastructure as Code
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Infrastructure as Vibe: What Comes After Infrastructure as Code

#ai #devtools #productivity #cloud
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A2A vs MCP in 2026: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
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A2A vs MCP in 2026: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

#ai #agents #devtools #productivity
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Prompts as Code: How to Version, Test, and Ship the Prompt Layer in 2026
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Prompts as Code: How to Version, Test, and Ship the Prompt Layer in 2026

#ai #devtools #productivity #startup
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Claude Skills vs Cursor Rules vs Copilot Instructions: How Real Teams Set AI Coding Standards in 2026
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Claude Skills vs Cursor Rules vs Copilot Instructions: How Real Teams Set AI Coding Standards in 2026

#ai #devtools #claude #productivity
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The Freelance Profit Leak: Why Solo Developers Lose Money Even When They Are Booked Solid
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The Freelance Profit Leak: Why Solo Developers Lose Money Even When They Are Booked Solid

#freelancing #career #productivity #startup
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The Claude Code Plugin Marketplace: How Skills, MCP Servers, and Plugins Actually Fit Together in 2026
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The Claude Code Plugin Marketplace: How Skills, MCP Servers, and Plugins Actually Fit Together in 2026

#ai #devtools #claude #agents
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Vercel Zero: The Programming Language Built So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, And Ship Native Code
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Vercel Zero: The Programming Language Built So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, And Ship Native Code

#ai #devtools #languages #vercel
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Vercel BotID In 2026: How The Invisible CAPTCHA Actually Works, And Where It Earns Its Place In My Stack
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Vercel BotID In 2026: How The Invisible CAPTCHA Actually Works, And Where It Earns Its Place In My Stack

#vercel #security #saas #backend
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Rate Limiting Your SaaS API in 2026: The AI Scraper Problem, Token Buckets, and the Layered Defense That Actually Works
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Rate Limiting Your SaaS API in 2026: The AI Scraper Problem, Token Buckets, and the Layered Defense That Actually Works

#saas #backend #architecture #devtools
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Background Jobs For Indie Developers in 2026: When You Need A Queue, When You Do Not, And What I Actually Use
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Background Jobs For Indie Developers in 2026: When You Need A Queue, When You Do Not, And What I Actually Use

#saas #backend #architecture #devtools
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Claude's June 15 Pricing Split: What Indie Devs Actually Need to Do Before the Meter Starts
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Claude's June 15 Pricing Split: What Indie Devs Actually Need to Do Before the Meter Starts

#ai #devtools #indiehacking #saas
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Zero-Downtime Postgres Migrations: The Mistakes That Locked My Production Database
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Zero-Downtime Postgres Migrations: The Mistakes That Locked My Production Database

#backend #architecture #devtools #saas
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Feature Flags For Solo Developers in 2026: When You Need Them, When You Do Not, And What I Actually Use
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Feature Flags For Solo Developers in 2026: When You Need Them, When You Do Not, And What I Actually Use

#saas #architecture #devtools #indiehackers
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Stripe Webhooks in Production: Idempotency, Retries, and the Mistakes That Cost Me Real Money
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Stripe Webhooks in Production: Idempotency, Retries, and the Mistakes That Cost Me Real Money

#saas #backend #architecture #devtools
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Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets in 2026: When Each One Actually Wins
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Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets in 2026: When Each One Actually Wins

#javascript #backend #architecture #devtools
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TypeScript at Scale: Why Your tsc Takes 90 Seconds and How to Fix It
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TypeScript at Scale: Why Your tsc Takes 90 Seconds and How to Fix It

#typescript #devtools #productivity #architecture
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Passkeys in Production: What I Wish I Knew Before Replacing Passwords
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Passkeys in Production: What I Wish I Knew Before Replacing Passwords

#javascript #security #architecture #devtools
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JavaScript Async Lifetimes: The Leak You Have and Probably Do Not Know About
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JavaScript Async Lifetimes: The Leak You Have and Probably Do Not Know About

#javascript #devtools #productivity #architecture
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Anthropic and SpaceX: What the Colossus Deal Actually Means for Developers
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Anthropic and SpaceX: What the Colossus Deal Actually Means for Developers

#ai #devtools #productivity
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RAG Chunking Strategies In Production 2026: What Actually Survives Real Documents And Real Queries
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RAG Chunking Strategies In Production 2026: What Actually Survives Real Documents And Real Queries

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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Embedding Models And Reranking In Production 2026: Picking The Pair That Actually Lifts Retrieval Quality
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Embedding Models And Reranking In Production 2026: Picking The Pair That Actually Lifts Retrieval Quality

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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Small Language Models In Production 2026: Where SLMs Beat Frontier Models, And Where They Quietly Fail
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Small Language Models In Production 2026: Where SLMs Beat Frontier Models, And Where They Quietly Fail

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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AI Guardrails And Output Validation In Production 2026: What Actually Catches Bad Outputs Before Users Do
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AI Guardrails And Output Validation In Production 2026: What Actually Catches Bad Outputs Before Users Do

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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Pricing AI Features in 2026: How To Charge For LLM-Backed Products Without Bleeding Margins
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Pricing AI Features in 2026: How To Charge For LLM-Backed Products Without Bleeding Margins

#ai #pricing #saas #business
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Multi-Modal AI Agents In Production: Vision, Audio, And The Glue That Actually Works In 2026
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Multi-Modal AI Agents In Production: Vision, Audio, And The Glue That Actually Works In 2026

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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Designing Tools For AI Agents In 2026: Schemas, Descriptions, And The Pitfalls That Make LLMs Fail Silently
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Designing Tools For AI Agents In 2026: Schemas, Descriptions, And The Pitfalls That Make LLMs Fail Silently

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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AI Agent Reliability Engineering in 2026: SLOs, Error Budgets, And Failure Modes That Actually Matter
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AI Agent Reliability Engineering in 2026: SLOs, Error Budgets, And Failure Modes That Actually Matter

#ai #reliability #architecture #devtools
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Sandboxing AI-Generated Code: E2B vs Vercel Sandbox vs Modal vs Daytona in 2026
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Sandboxing AI-Generated Code: E2B vs Vercel Sandbox vs Modal vs Daytona in 2026

#ai #security #devtools #architecture
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The LLM Router Pattern in 2026: Model Routing, Fallbacks, and Cost Control That Actually Works
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The LLM Router Pattern in 2026: Model Routing, Fallbacks, and Cost Control That Actually Works

#ai #architecture #devtools #productivity
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Generative UI in 2026: What Actually Works for Developers
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Generative UI in 2026: What Actually Works for Developers

#ai #frontend #architecture #devtools
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AI Agent Frameworks in 2026: LangGraph vs Mastra vs Vercel AI SDK vs OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic AI
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AI Agent Frameworks in 2026: LangGraph vs Mastra vs Vercel AI SDK vs OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic AI

#ai #devtools #architecture #productivity
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Generative Engine Optimization: How to Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude in 2026
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Generative Engine Optimization: How to Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude in 2026

#seo #growth #marketing #content
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AI Voice Agents in Production: What Actually Works in 2026
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AI Voice Agents in Production: What Actually Works in 2026

#ai #devtools #productivity #architecture
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Securing AI Agents in Production: What Nobody Tells You Before Something Breaks
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Securing AI Agents in Production: What Nobody Tells You Before Something Breaks

#ai #devtools #security #productivity
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Problem Validation for Indie Hackers: Why You Are Building the Wrong Thing (And How to Know Before You Start)
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Problem Validation for Indie Hackers: Why You Are Building the Wrong Thing (And How to Know Before You Start)

#startup #indiehacking #productivity #ai
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LLM Fine-Tuning for Developers: When RAG Is Not Enough
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LLM Fine-Tuning for Developers: When RAG Is Not Enough

#ai #devtools #productivity
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AI Browser Agents in 2026: Stagehand vs Browser Use vs Playwright
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AI Browser Agents in 2026: Stagehand vs Browser Use vs Playwright

#ai #devtools #agents #automation
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Temporal vs Inngest vs Vercel Workflow in 2026: Picking a Durable Engine
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Temporal vs Inngest vs Vercel Workflow in 2026: Picking a Durable Engine

#ai #devtools #productivity #saas
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Structured Outputs in 2026: Function Calling, JSON Mode, and the Schema Wars
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Structured Outputs in 2026: Function Calling, JSON Mode, and the Schema Wars

#ai #devtools #productivity #saas
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Prompt Caching in 2026: Anthropic vs OpenAI vs Gemini for Production Apps
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Prompt Caching in 2026: Anthropic vs OpenAI vs Gemini for Production Apps

#ai #devtools #productivity #saas
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Multi-Agent vs Single-Agent Architecture in 2026: When the Crew Beats the Soloist
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Multi-Agent vs Single-Agent Architecture in 2026: When the Crew Beats the Soloist

#ai #devtools #agents #saas
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Vector Database Comparison 2026: pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Qdrant
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Vector Database Comparison 2026: pgvector, Pinecone, Turbopuffer, and Qdrant

#ai #devtools #saas #productivity
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RAG vs Long Context in 2026: When to Retrieve and When to Just Stuff the Window
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RAG vs Long Context in 2026: When to Retrieve and When to Just Stuff the Window

#ai #devtools #productivity #saas
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Durable AI Workflows in 2026: Why Your Next AI Feature Needs Orchestration
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Durable AI Workflows in 2026: Why Your Next AI Feature Needs Orchestration

#ai #devtools #saas #productivity
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AI Code Review Tools in 2026: CodeRabbit vs Greptile vs Vercel Agent
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AI Code Review Tools in 2026: CodeRabbit vs Greptile vs Vercel Agent

#ai #devtools #productivity #saas
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Cursor vs Windsurf vs Zed: The AI IDE Showdown (2026)
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Cursor vs Windsurf vs Zed: The AI IDE Showdown (2026)

#devtools #ai #productivity #editors
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AI Agent Observability: Debugging Production Agents Without Going Insane (2026)
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AI Agent Observability: Debugging Production Agents Without Going Insane (2026)

#ai #devtools #observability #agents
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Better Auth vs Clerk vs Supabase Auth: Which Should Solo Devs Pick in 2026?
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Better Auth vs Clerk vs Supabase Auth: Which Should Solo Devs Pick in 2026?

#devtools #startup #saas
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AI SDK v6: The Practical Guide to Shipping AI Features Without Vendor Lock-In (2026)
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AI SDK v6: The Practical Guide to Shipping AI Features Without Vendor Lock-In (2026)

#ai #devtools #javascript
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Claude Design vs Figma: What the 7% Stock Drop Actually Signals (2026)
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Claude Design vs Figma: What the 7% Stock Drop Actually Signals (2026)

#ai #devtools #design
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Claude Design Review: First Impressions for Developers (2026)
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Claude Design Review: First Impressions for Developers (2026)

#ai #devtools #design
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Testing AI-Generated Code: How to Actually Know If It Works
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Testing AI-Generated Code: How to Actually Know If It Works

#ai #devtools #programming #webdev
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SaaS Churn Is Killing Your Business. Here Is What to Do About It (Without a Support Team)
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SaaS Churn Is Killing Your Business. Here Is What to Do About It (Without a Support Team)

#startup #indiehacking #saas #productivity
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How to Test AI-Generated Code Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Users)
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How to Test AI-Generated Code Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Users)

#ai #devtools #productivity #programming
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REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC: What I Actually Use and Why in 2026
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REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC: What I Actually Use and Why in 2026

#webdev #javascript #programming #devtools
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Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped: First Impressions, Benchmarks, and What Actually Changed
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Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped: First Impressions, Benchmarks, and What Actually Changed

#ai #devtools #productivity
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Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Defending AI Apps in 2026
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Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection: Defending AI Apps in 2026

#ai #security #devtools #saas
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