A practical companion to my learning-in-public article about building EthoPipe. I made these files because I kept getting lost between ideas, generated code, unfinished tasks, and new conversations. They were not a system I designed perfectly at the...

What building EthoPipe is teaching me about AI tools, project rules, and leaving room to experiment Update: I've linked the companion guide : After my post How Adobe Firefly and Copilot Taught Me to Prompt for Code Part 1https://coderlegion.com/31...

Every time the topic of AI comes up in developer spaces, the conversation usually splits into two extremes: people who claim AI takes "zero effort" because you just type a sentence and get a finished product, and people who dismiss prompting as a sof...

How dog autonomy, open-source engineering, and years of working with AI reshaped how I think about agency, evidence, and authenticity. We are taught from day one that loving a dog means controlling them. Traditional dog culture is obsessed with com...

In the collective memory of personal computing, the conversation about Microsoft almost always circles back to a punchline. Someone brings up Windows Vista, someone else mentions Internet Explorer, and inevitably, everyone laughs about Clippy. They...

I’ve been thinking about writing more, but once again I found myself trapped in a loop of self-doubt. It’s difficult to have so many ideas and still feel unable to act on them—or to believe that, in the end, I have no knowledge worth sharing. I get s...

When you view the academic, professional, and technological worlds through the intersectional lens of a woman born and raised in the Global South, you quickly learn to look at every first-world narrative with absolute skepticism. For decades, the int...

The Day the Premium Quotas Melted We’ve all seen the massive marketing headlines celebrating multi-million token context windows. So when I scored access to the Google AI Pro student tier, I figured I was completely set. My journey into the anatom...