My Anthropic bill doubled two months in a row. Not because I was building something bigger — because I kept asking the same questions, sending bloated prompts, and defaulting to Sonnet for tasks that Haiku could handle. I built a tool to fix it. Here...

Stop Treating Your Database Like an Afterthought: The True Path to Scalability Introduction In the frantic pursuit of modern, resilient architectures, the buzzwords often revolve around auto-scaling compute, serverless functions, and container orc...

A Web Application Firewall is useful, but it is not a magic shield. In real environments, the difference between “blocked” and “allowed” is often not a zero-day. It is usually a normalization mismatch, a decoding gap, a permissive rule, or an assump...

The AI agent used to be the star of every demo. Now it's on the shutdown list. Not because the model got worse. The most valuable asset in your AI program is in none of the quotes you ever signed. A demo is a showroom. Good light, everything polis...

You have a big algorithmic method. Let's break it. > TL;DR: Long methods are bad. Move them and break them. Problems Addressed 😔 Lack of Testability Accidental Complexity Testing Private Methodshttps://maximilianocontieri.com/code-smell-112-test...

Just participated in this month's Kaggle Tabular Playground challenge focused on Stellar Classification The goal was to classify astronomical objects into: STAR GALAXY QSO Quasar A few interesting findings from the exploration: 1. Redshift tur...

Hello Developers! Recently, I released a new Lioric version 0.1.9 Now our Lioric Widget is completely customizable according to your website UI. Changes happened in this update: Now the model props in the Lioric tag are optional; you can just lea...

Introduction Artificial intelligence tools, particularly large language models LLMs, are not like traditional software. AI is probabilistic, so the same instructions and inputs can produce different results, especially when using non-zero temperatu...

Some of the rules in your CLAUDE.md should not be rules at all. Not because they are wrong. Because you have written the things you cannot afford to lose into a file the model reads once and then slowly forgets. A preference survives that. A constra...

You know the pattern: you write a factory with faker, tests pass locally, then CI blows up because faker.number.int generated a negative value that fails your .positive constraint. The mock was lying the whole time. I built zodmint to fix this. You ...

I Built a Multi-Agent AI Boardroom That Ships Software on Its Own — For Free How I designed an autonomous LLM pipeline with a CEO, security officer, and QA team that produces real, browser-runnable projects up to 5 times a day — running entirely on...

Want to learn web development and kickstart a lucrative career in tech? In this special guest issue, developer educator and Scrimba teacher Shant Dashjian shares practical advice on mastering web development fundamentals, embracing hands-on and commu...

Every developer has done it — spent the first sprint of a new project wiring up auth, configuring deployments, scaffolding a project structure, and setting up CI/CD pipelines before writing a single line of actual product logic. It's the tax you pay ...

Rows, the ORM built for Alusus language, takes a fundamentally different approach to database migrations compared to the linear, file-based systems found in tools like Sequelize, Flyway, or Rails ActiveRecord. Instead of maintaining an ordered sequen...

I’ve been working on an open-source project called pybgworker, a lightweight background task worker for Python applications that works without Redis or RabbitMQ, using SQLite instead. The goal was to make background job processing simple for project...

This article was originally published on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@rajkundalia/why-your-story-points-feel-arbitrary-and-how-to-fix-it-63cb7a9a51da. I just feel it is "2", no, I think it is "3". When I first came across story points, I always wonde...