The 360K-Star AI Assistant Nobody in the West Is Talking About — And What It Reveals About Cross-Platform Tooling in 2026
You're staring at your third AI assistant setup guide of the week. Cursor, Copilot, some obscure terminal tool that promises to "revolutionize" your w
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Jun 12, 2026
Deep-Linkable Livewire: Scoping a Browser to the Thing You Clicked
Today's work was a small piece of UX that's easy to underestimate: making an admin "browser" page scope itself to whatever you clicked to get there. T
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Jun 12, 2026
Prevent Cache Stampedes: Atomic Locks in Laravel 🛡️
The Cache Stampede Avalanche
When engineering high-traffic applications at Smart Tech Devs, caching heavy database responses is your first line of de
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Jun 12, 2026
Filo-Go v0.5.1 Released
🚀 Filo-Go v0.5.1
Today I'm happy to announce the first stable release:
The goal of Filo-Go is to provide a unified forensic analysis platf
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Jun 12, 2026
Refactoring Go API Unit Tests: Breaking Down the Testing Monolith
The Concept
When building backend APIs in Go, testing isn't just about code coverage, it's about long-term maintainability. As an applicati
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Jun 12, 2026
Why an encrypted config backup breaks when you move servers — and how I fixed it in laravel-config-backup
Imagine you write a letter in a secret code that only your old house key can read. Then you move. You photocopy the coded letter, carry it to the new
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Jun 12, 2026
Shipping a Livewire 4 + Flux admin UI inside a package: four gotchas that 500'd on me
Bundling an admin UI inside a Laravel package is a different game from building one in an app. The app's conveniences — a compiled Vite manifest, a re
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Jun 12, 2026
A test that catches the bug your feature tests can't see
There's a class of bug that's maddening: it passes every test you have, then crashes in the user's face. I hit one in the admin UI of laravel-config-s
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Jun 12, 2026
I fell in love with Hanami
Hanami is a Japanese tradition of watching cherry blossoms drifting from the trees. It is an appropriate name to capture how I felt when I first encou
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Jun 12, 2026
The Dev Tools I Actually Use as a Solo Rust + Tauri Developer in 2026
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion.
Not a listicle of everyth
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Jun 12, 2026
Why I Don't Use an ORM in My Rust Apps — Just SQL and rusqlite
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion.
Every Rust project I star
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Jun 12, 2026
David Stark: Top High-Paying Roles
👋 Hello Architects & Elite Engineers,
The market is shifting. We are seeing a surge in GOLANG roles this week.
We don't do "Easy Apply". O
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Jun 12, 2026
I Built a Desktop AI Companion That Walks Across Your Screen (Tauri + Rust)
I wanted an AI assistant that felt warm and present, not like another chat window buried in a browser tab. So I built Lil Buddy — a Tauri desktop app
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Jun 12, 2026
Stop Copy-Pasting Project Scaffolds - Use a Template Engine
Ever find yourself copying an old project, deleting half the files, doing a find-and-replace for the service name, and praying you didn't miss a refer
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Jun 11, 2026
How to Install and Build Custom Apps, Agents, and Scanners in Flowork
Getting Flowork running is a single command — no Docker, no accounts, no cloud dependencies.
git clone https://github.com/flowork-os/Flowork_Agent.
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Jun 11, 2026
Parse, Don’t Guess
Three days before going open source, I deleted my parser's smartest feature.
333 lines. 6 functions. 12 passing tests. All green, all clever, all gon
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Jun 11, 2026
MDL 0.1.9: optional TypeScript behavior scripts without a TypeScript project setup
MDL 0.1.9 adds optional external TypeScript behavior scripts.
The important word is optional.
MDL is still:
.mdl -> structure and content
.css
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Jun 11, 2026
The Observability Gap for Small Deployments
Over the years, I've worked on multiple small-to-medium applications running on modest infrastructure.
A typical setup looks something like:
A smal
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Jun 11, 2026
Is Coding Over? 5 Career Pivots for Rails Devs in the AI Era
If you spend any time on Tech Twitter lately, you might feel like the sky is falling. People are saying that "coding is dead" and that AI will replace
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Jun 11, 2026
Strict by Accident: Your JSON Parser Isn't Broken — It's Answering the Wrong Question
I was importing a JSON file and it blew up. Not a subtle bug — the parser refused the whole thing. The cause was a single extra comma. After deleting
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Jun 11, 2026