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The Day the Treasure Hunt Engine Buried Itself Alive

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our first production spike came during a Black Friday weekend when the hunt feed exceeded 180k concurrent sessions. The Rails process memory ballooned to 4.2 GB, the P99 latency for /hunt/start hit 5.2 seconds, and the New Relic trace showed 72 % of that time...

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 8 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 5 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 7 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 13 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 3 min read

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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....

May 26, 2026 · 10 min read

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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...

May 26, 2026 · 8 min read

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Great read! Matches my lean approach 😃

How do I use DevOps-style i18n Med Marrouchi Med Marrouchi ...

May 26, 2026 · 1 min read

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Can a Marketer Vibe-Code a Working App? 6 Lessons From My First Build

I spent 10 years in digital marketing and SEO and built every site with WordPress. This year, I decided to try to build a finance dashboard to track corporate insider and politician stock trades. WordPress didn't seem right for this, so I decided to try vibe-coding. I built the site, called...

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read