Six Months of AI-Assisted Software Development: A Critical Evaluation of Vibe Coding, Agentic IDEs, and Real Engineering
Six Months of AI-Assisted Software Development: A Critical Evaluation of Vibe Coding, Agentic IDEs, and Real Engineering
Introduct
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Jun 03, 2026
Recovering a Hacked WordPress Site and Rebuilding It with Laravel
Recently I was brought into a project involving a legacy WordPress website that had suffered a security incident. By the time I got access, parts of t
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Jun 03, 2026
I built a bulk email tool in one evening — no database, no .env, credentials never stored
Every week I had to send 100+ personalized emails.
Open Excel → copy name → paste → change email → repeat 100 times.
It was taking nearly 3 hours ev
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Jun 03, 2026
GORM vs sqlx vs pgx: Go database libraries after 2 years in production
Every Go project that talks to PostgreSQL eventually faces the same question: GORM, sqlx, or pgx? The full ORM, the thin wrapper, or the raw driver. I
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Jun 03, 2026
Publishing One Package to Five Registries with GitHub Actions
Every developer building for European markets hits the same wall eventually. EU VAT rates are public data — the European Commission publishes them — b
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Jun 03, 2026
I Was Asked to Add a Simple Classifier to a Website. Then I Saw the 250 MB Download.
A client asked me for a simple thing.
Not ChatGPT.
Not an agent.
Not a multimodal assistant that can explain invoices, generate React components, a
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Jun 03, 2026
Search Engine Marketing That Drives Instant Results
Search Engine Marketing That Drives Instant Results
https://www.getreputed.com/sem-search-engine-marketing/
Get More Leads with Google Ads & Paid Sea
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Jun 03, 2026
How I built an E2EE chat in Go + React (with AI agent support)
🚀 Try it now: Open the Arthas web app — create a room, share the code, chat with E2EE. No signup needed.
TL;DR — Try It in 2 Minutes
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Jun 03, 2026
From Elasticsearch Bottlenecks to Weaviate: How We Built Fast Hybrid Search in Production
For years, Elasticsearch was one of those tools I would almost automatically reach for whenever a system needed search.
And honestly, for many use ca
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Jun 03, 2026
I wrote my own RBAC instead of reaching for Spatie, and the review caught a privilege-escalation hole
This is the next entry in a build-in-public series where I extract a real,
production Laravel CRM into a reusable SaaS core, one module at a time, and
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Jun 03, 2026
Java OOP Basics: Constructors and Packages Explained Clearly
Introduction
In Java, constructors are used to initialize objects, while packages are used to organize classes and interfaces. Both concept
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Jun 03, 2026
Multi-Tenancy from a Live CRM, and the Two Holes the Second Review Found
Last time I shipped v0.2.x of LaraFoundry: authentication and users, built on top of Fortify. This post is v0.3.0, and it's the one a SaaS actually ne
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Jun 03, 2026
Constructors in Java
What is a Constructor?
A Constructor is a special method in Java that is automatically called when an object is created.
It is used to initialize ob
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Jun 03, 2026
Managing a Large Catalog for Magento Open Source Merchants: A Technical Use Case Breakdown
Managing large catalogs on Magento presents unique challenges that impact site speed, scalability, and operational efficiency. For merchants and mid-m
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Jun 03, 2026
Go Generics: When to Use Them, When to Avoid Them
I had three repositories that looked identical. UserRepository, ProductRepository, OrderRepository: same structure, same FindByID, same List, same pag
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Jun 03, 2026
Building Typo-Tolerant Multi-Language Video Search with OpenSearch and PHP
When you run a video aggregator that pulls trending content from nine Asia-Pacific regions every four hours, search becomes the place where users eith
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Jun 03, 2026
I Survived the Treasure Hunt Engine Debacle by Questioning Everything I Knew About Event Architecture
The Problem We Were Actually Solving
I still remember the day our team decided to implement the Treasure Hunt Engine, a complex event-drive
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Jun 03, 2026
How to Fix Gradle Error: Unsupported class file major version (React Native & Expo)
If your React Native or Expo Android compilation suddenly crashes with a massive terminal stack trace pointing to an "unsupported class file major ver
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Jun 03, 2026
The Go Dependency Blindspot: Why You’re Missing Major Upgrades (and How to Fix It)
Go’s module system is widely celebrated for its predictability, speed, and reproducibility. Through the implementation of Semantic Import Versioning (
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Jun 03, 2026
From Polling to Production: How I Upgraded My Biometric Integration with Gate Control, Auto-Enrollment, and 24/7 Reliability
A follow-up to my previous post on connecting a ZK fingerprint device to Rails. This is the upgrade story — what broke, what I rebuilt, and what the s
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Jun 03, 2026