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Loading code without the disk: what each OS lets you get away with Wojciech

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Automating Windows Server Setup with Ansible: My DevOps Journey (Part 2)

In my previous blog, I walked through how I automated Linux server setup using Ansible — SSH hardening, roles, and playbooks. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1 here. In this post, I'll fo

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Cron expressions are hard to read — so I built cronread

The problem Developers routinely have to leave the terminal and visit crontab.guru to verify what a cron expression actually schedules — there is no zero-dependency CLI tool that explains c

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Building a Practical AI Radar — notes from the state-management trenches

When we started building Radarix.ai, the visible product was always a map: layers of public-source signals stitched together so a person can see what's happening in air, at sea, and across borders in

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What a Free Security Snapshot Can Tell You — and What It Cannot

What a Free Security Snapshot Can Tell You — and What It Cannot Most small teams know their security posture needs attention. The harder question is: where do you actually start? Do you ru

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I built an MCP server without the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk — here's what I learned

I shipped a Model Context Protocol server last month. It's live on Anthropic's official registry as io.github.cammac-creator/openswissdata. It exposes nine tools over JSON-RPC 2.0 to any MCP-compatibl

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AI Workloads Break Traditional FinOps Models

The GPU cluster is idle. The inference bill doubled anyway. Nobody can explain which architectural decision caused it. That moment — the bill that arrives without a traceable utilization event — is w

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AGENTS.md as a Cross-Tool Plugin Brief: A Case Study from kobiton/automate

Canonical home: This post first appeared on Kobiton's blog at kobiton.com/blog/agents-md-cross-tool-plugin-brief-case-study-kobiton-automate. This page mirrors it; SEO authority consolidates to the K

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Coherence as a Deliverable: How a Multi-Surface Engagement Stays Sane

A sprawling multi-surface engagement (Kobiton partner pilot, 4 months, three deliverable rounds) exposed a silent failure mode: drift doesn't announce itself. A title rename on Plane goes unnoticed wh

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GitHub Account Compromise: A Wake-Up Call for Engineering Leadership on Platform Security

In the dynamic world of software development, platforms like GitHub are indispensable. They host our code, power our CI/CD pipelines, and facilitate collaboration, all while contributing significantly

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Stop using UUID v4 for database primary keys — UUIDv7 is the 2026 default

Your B-tree indexes hate UUID v4. They've hated it for years. You probably haven't noticed because the slowdown is gradual — until your table hits 10 million rows and inserts start taking 200ms instea

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Microsoft Graph API — What the Docs Don't Tell You About OneNote Rate Limiting

I've been building Note Bridge for a while now — a tool that migrates OneNote notebooks to Notion. Going in, I assumed the hardest part would be content conversion — correctly translating OneNote's co

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Why We Removed Ads from Our Free Tools (And Put Them Only on Blog Posts)

This article was originally published on Jo4 Blog. We built a suite of free developer tools: JSON formatter, JWT decoder, QR generator, UTM builder, and about a dozen others. Then we added AdSense

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How I practice Chinese typing as a developer

I work across English and Chinese codebases — internal docs, commit messages, customer support replies — and for a long time my Chinese typing speed was a real bottleneck. I could read characters fine

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Why We Built Dhara — An Open Protocol Standard for AI Agents, Not Another Product

Coding agents today are products, not platforms. Every single one ships as a bloated, all-in-one package that forces you into its way of working. Claude Code wants you to use their plugin system. Code

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SQLite and Concurrency: The Lockout Experienced at islistesi.com

SQLite and Concurrency: The Lockout Experienced at islistesi.com A few weeks ago, the SQLite database I use to ensure data consistency in a production ERP system gave me serious trouble wit

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Engineering a High-Performance Reddit Video Downloader: Decoding DASH, HLS, and Client-Side Transmuxing

As developers, we often perceive video downloading as a simple GET request to a .mp4 URL. However, modern social media giants like Reddit have moved far beyond static file hosting. Today, Reddit emplo

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I Built a Skin System for Claude Code — Here's How It Works

Claude Code is genuinely remarkable. But if you've been using it for more than a week, you've noticed something: everyone's terminal looks identical. Same colors, same layout, same feel. You could scr

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Visualize Infracost on Your Architecture Diagram

Infracost estimates your monthly cloud bill from Terraform code before you deploy. But its output — a long table of resource costs in the terminal — makes it hard to see which part of your architectur

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How to verify AI-discovered vulnerabilities aren't just training data echoes

The setup Last month a friend DM'd me a screenshot. An AI security agent had "discovered" a vulnerability in a popular open-source project. The agent walked through exploitation steps, sugg

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