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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.
Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.
📏 We're Back To Measuring Productivity By Lines Of Code
I was scrolling through LinkedIn recently and saw what I always see lately: some marketer bragging about running agents and programming, claiming they replaced an entire team of developers.
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🇫🇷 Microsoft Teams Is So Bad, France Built Its Own Alternative
Ok, the title is a bit facetious. But the truth is that France decided to use a platform called Visio starting in 2027. But why?
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🔌 I've Created a Browser Extension To Replace AI Slop with SLOP
I felt adventurous enough to play with PyTorch and see if I can write an extension that actually uses a neural network. The goal was to recognize slop phrases like "silently kills" on websites and replace them with "SLOP". I don't think there's a practical use for this extension,
Read more🗓️ Temporal API Released In Chrome, But Still Not Usable
Temporal API was released in Chrome and is available in versions 144-146. Unfortunately it's still not usable because it's not supported in Edge, Safari (Technology Preview can enable it with useTemporal runtime flag, so it's not for users yet). This anfractuous browser support s
Read moreThe Paradox of Waiting for AI to Code: How to Stay Productive While Your Digital Assistant Works
AI coding assistants promised to make us faster. They delivered. Now we face a problem nobody anticipated: what do you do while waiting for the AI to finish generating 500 lines of code? The irony is thick. We automated coding to save time, and now we're stuck watching progress b
Read moreWhy PDF Viewers Show Different Page Number From Page Footers?
Do you know that feeling when you scroll an ebook, but page numbers in PDF viewer and on ebook pages are misaligned, but you got so…
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I’ll Pay $1000 Dollar To The First Person That Builds This, Apple
I’ll Pay $1000 Dollar To The First Person That Builds This, Apple Hey all. How are you all doing? I didn’t write here for a quite a while. Reasons later, it’s a separate story. Anyways, the new iPhone was released. It made me think what a waste we use all the technology to manufa…
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When a Currency Conversion Bug Inflated Lottery Prizes by 10x - And Top Executives Paid the Price
A simple mix-up in exchange rate direction caused thousands of lottery winners to receive vastly inflated prize notifications — triggering…
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How Designers Worldwide Conspired To Turn World Into Greys
Why in 2025 everything is designed in black, white, grey or muted colors? Surprisingly corporations aren’t behind this conspiracy
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3 MacOs Apps I Can’t Live Without
MacOS is a great operating system if you install these three apps, check them out
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