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Every hour you spend manually organizing spreadsheets, copy-pasting data between disconnected tools, or responding to repetitive client emails is an hour you aren’t scaling. It’s a silent, invisible cost that I call the “Manual Tax.” Many business ...

Introduction Directus is a backend for developers. It can connect to any SQL database and asset storage, and it provides developer tooling — which the Directus team calls the "Data Engine" — alongside a web application that lets both developers and...

> I spent 3 hours every morning researching and published nothing. Then I built a Google Sheet that did the research for me in 15 minutes. It's 10:47 PM on a Sunday. Your laptop is open. Seven browser tabs are perhaps open for your attention. One h...

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This article is a result of almost 2 years of experimenting. Yeah, it took me some... It will be in two parts: this one a bit on the technical side, and then more philosophical one about AI capability in games in general. Check the Werewolf rules if...

Abstract Modern browsers are far more powerful than most developers realize. Beyond rendering web pages, they provide a rich ecosystem of native APIs that enable applications to access device capabilities, work offline, interact with hardware, comm...

After tackling the question of which branching strategy is best/blog/continuous-delivery-office-hours-e3, we turn our focus to architecture in this Continuous Delivery Office Hours episode. In particular, we discuss how big your building blocks shoul...

Making ExcelBook::save atomic is easy to describe. Write the workbook to a temporary file, then rename it into place. A save that dies halfway leaves the original file untouched. The obvious way to build that staged file is to ask LibXL for the fini...

You have a great idea for a P2P crypto exchange. You know the market is growing, users are looking for more flexible trading options, and the opportunity looks promising. But then comes the bigger question: what will make your platform stand out? ...

Log management and observability are no longer a matter of “storing text and searching it quickly.” In 2026, the real challenge is economic and architectural: ingesting growing volumes, retaining data for months, correlating logs with me...

An AI agent looks like magic in a demo and like plumbing in production. Underneath the branding, it is a loop: the model observes the current state, plans a next step, calls a tool, reads the result, and repeats until the goal is met or it runs out o...

Realizing our perception of time can change drastically when we are drowning in work is a rather funny experience. Reading the publishing date of the last article nearly gave me a good shock when I realized it was done half a year ago. Yet, it felt r...

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In a 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders, 21.1% said they could not account for shadow AI agents. A better dashboard will not fix it: a 1978 stroke study shows why, and eleven of my own checks proved it. In one 2026 vendor survey of 750 IT leaders,...

Why I wrote this Until this project, "object storage" and "S3" were the same word in my head. Bucket, IAM keys, boto3, done. I had never once thought about what happens underneath, because AWS's whole pitch is that I don't have to. > Note — object...

You've spent your career learning to distrust input. You parameterize SQL queries so a user's name can't become a DROP TABLE. You escape HTML so a comment can't become a . In every one of those cases there's a clean fix, because there's a clean bound...

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