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The Singleton LabyrinthProgramming10 min

The Singleton Labyrinth

The Singleton Labyrinth: Navigating the Hidden Dangers of Global State Imagine a meticulously designed city, with clear roads, logical intersections, and well-marked paths. Now imagine secret tunnels appearing overnight, allowing residents to bypass entire districts, seemingly saving time....

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Build your first MCP server in TypeScript: the 2026 setup that takes 30 minutes.Programming8 min

Build your first MCP server in TypeScript: the 2026 setup that takes 30 minutes.

The promise of AI agents seamlessly interacting with your local data and tools has long felt like a distant future. Proprietary integrations and fragmented ecosystems made true interoperability a developer's nightmare. But what if you could bridge this gap, connecting your AI assistant to your...

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Check Wallet Balances Across 4 Chains with Zero Dependencies — chain_balance.pyProgramming3 min

Check Wallet Balances Across 4 Chains with Zero Dependencies — chain_balance.py

TL;DR: A single-file Python CLI tool that checks native and token balances across Solana, Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon using public RPC endpoints. No pip install required. Just Python 3 and a wallet address. GitHub: https://github.com/neuralmint/multichain-balance-cli Why Another...

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Vectr — Code Intelligence AI ToolProgramming8 min

Vectr — Code Intelligence AI Tool

You log off for the day after two hours of research. You know the entry point is EvaluateSegments in targeting/segment/evaluator.go. You know the nil visitor_id case is unhandled. You know bidder/auction.go calls this function and can't have its interface changed. Next morning, Claude Code knows...

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Veltrix Was Killing Us With YAMLProgramming5 min

Veltrix Was Killing Us With YAML

The Problem We Were Actually Solving The real pain wasnt disk size; it was cognitive load on level designers. Every hunt lived in a separate fork of the same monorepo, diffing 14 kB YAMLs was misery, and once the file exceeded 100 kB we started getting partial-checkout timeouts in CI because Git...

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Beyond Monolithic AI: How to Build a Pluggable "Brain" Architecture for Autonomous AgentsProgramming13 min

Beyond Monolithic AI: How to Build a Pluggable "Brain" Architecture for Autonomous Agents

Imagine you’re building a personal research assistant. Its job is to ingest hundreds of academic PDFs, learn your unique writing style, and eventually draft comprehensive reports for you. When you first launch it, you connect it to a bleeding-edge cloud model like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o via...

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5 PostgreSQL locking behaviors that trip people upProgramming8 min

5 PostgreSQL locking behaviors that trip people up

Introduction PostgreSQL uses MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) for concurrency control: reads never block writes, and writes never block reads. Its locking system has 8 table-level lock modes and 4 row-level lock modes, and the conflict tables in the documentation tell you exactly which...

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The Operational Cost of JWT Lifecycle Management: Overlooked DetailsProgramming15 min

The Operational Cost of JWT Lifecycle Management: Overlooked Details

The Operational Burden of JWT Lifecycle Management Every new technology that enters our lives initially excites us with its simplicity and promises. JSON Web Token (JWT) emerged as a great solution, especially for stateless authentication needs. However, over the years, I've begun to see more...

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How I Built a Programmatic SEO Site with 16,750 Pages Using FastAPI and PostgreSQLProgramming7 min

How I Built a Programmatic SEO Site with 16,750 Pages Using FastAPI and PostgreSQL

A deep dive into building BSBFinder.com — a free Australian BSB number lookup tool — from data pipeline to deployment. Every Australian bank transfer requires a BSB number — a 6-digit code identifying the bank and branch. There are over 16,750 active BSB codes, and the existing lookup tools...

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I Built an AI Agent That Tells Me When to Go Wing FoilingProgramming8 min

I Built an AI Agent That Tells Me When to Go Wing Foiling

The Problem: Should I Go Foiling Today? I'm obsessed with wing foiling. If you don't know what that is — imagine holding an inflatable wing, standing on a hydrofoil board, and literally flying above the water. It's incredible. But every morning I'd check 3-4 different apps — windy.com, and...

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Does Every Developer Need a Figma Dev Mode Seat? An Honest 2026 ReviewProgramming13 min

Does Every Developer Need a Figma Dev Mode Seat? An Honest 2026 Review

Key takeaway Figma Dev Mode is a good product for internal teams that work in Figma daily. But for freelancers, agencies, external collaborators, and occasional handoff, the per-seat model can be heavier than the actual need. View-only access covers many basics, and tools like SpecPeek can fill the...

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Building My First MCP Server with Claude and PythonProgramming4 min

Building My First MCP Server with Claude and Python

Building My First MCP Server with Claude and Python A few days ago, I started exploring MCP (Model Context Protocol) and wanted to understand how AI tools actually interact with external systems. Instead of just reading documentation, I decided to build a simple, real-world project: A custom...

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Azure Blob Storage for Beginners: Private Access, SAS Tokens & Cost Savings ExplainedProgramming5 min

Azure Blob Storage for Beginners: Private Access, SAS Tokens & Cost Savings Explained

What is a Microsoft Azure Blob storage? A Microsoft Azure blob storage is a object storage for files, images, backups, videos, logs, static websites, etc. Think of it as "cloud hard drives accessible over HTTP". What is Private Access? Private access simply relates to permissions. To buttress...

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I'm building a TypeScript data grid where config reads like EnglishProgramming3 min

I'm building a TypeScript data grid where config reads like English

I've integrated a lot of data grids over the years. Every time, the experience was the same — open the docs, search for the prop I need, find three different ways to do the same thing, pick one, get it wrong, Google it, eventually get it working, and forget how I did it by the next...

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Revamped Proof for Finish-Up-A-ThonProgramming2 min

Revamped Proof for Finish-Up-A-Thon

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built My first commit on Proof started on July 28, 2025 as a decentralized learning management system on EduChain. It solves the problem of unreliable or easily altered academic records by putting key learning actions...

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WordPress Manifesto - 15 Years In, Here's What's Actually BrokenProgramming10 min

WordPress Manifesto - 15 Years In, Here's What's Actually Broken

Originally published on marcindudek.dev I've been doing WordPress for 15 years. I love it and I'm tired of it at the same time. Not tired in the "I'm moving to Webflow" way. Tired of the lies - the small ones and the big ones. The "free CMS", the "open source community", the "40% of the web" brag....

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You Don’t Need to Be Recruited to Become an AssetProgramming4 min

You Don’t Need to Be Recruited to Become an Asset

In the landscape of modern cyber-espionage and non-state actor operations, there is a recurring misconception in security analysis: the belief that there is a coherent ideology behind every attacker. Analysts often fall into the trap of seeking a "cause" or a set of beliefs to explain the actions...

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The case for using AI to write better code more slowlyProgramming3 min

The case for using AI to write better code more slowly

The dominant mental model for AI-assisted coding is speed: generate multi-hundred-line PRs, merge fast, iterate faster. Vibe coding as a velocity play. Nolan Lawson's post this week pushes back on that — not by rejecting LLMs, but by using them differently. "You can use them just as effectively...

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Your Design System Needs An MCP ServerProgramming8 min

Your Design System Needs An MCP Server

One of the best investments you can make for your design system right now is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. As AI models evolve they are becoming increasingly more capable, but using them effectively comes at a cost. Every token an AI wastes guessing how your components work is money left...

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I got a $100 AI bill. Then I found the $80,000 ones. So I built a kill switch.(2026)Programming3 min

I got a $100 AI bill. Then I found the $80,000 ones. So I built a kill switch.(2026)

A few weeks ago I woke up to a $100 charge from my AI provider. For a lot of people that's nothing. For me, a solo dev who obsessively keeps infrastructure costs near zero, it genuinely stung. But that wasn't even the part that got me. The part that got me was what I found when I went looking for...

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