Technology
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Harnessing the Harness
The model is not the hard part of agentic AI. The hard part is the scaffolding around it — the harness that intercepts tool calls, routes decisions, handles failures, and keeps the whole thing from careening off the rails.
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Your AI Dream Team: Mastering Agentic Publishing with Claude
Instead of a single, one-off request, agentic publishing involves orchestrating multiple specialised AI roles — researcher, writer, editor, strategist — within a single intelligent system. Here’s how Claude makes it work.
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From Code Monkey to Co-Founder: How My AI Prompts Have Aged
Looking back at my AI prompt history reveals a dramatic shift — from writing regex patterns to positioning fintech platforms as ecosystem plays. AI is eating my operational bottlenecks.
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Antigravity and the One-Hour Laravel Blog
After moving on from WordPress I tested Google’s Antigravity AI coding tool to get a barebones Laravel blog running. The complete implementation — admin panel, frontend, tagging — was done in under an hour.
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Setting Up a Healthy Engineering Culture: A Blueprint for Success
Engineering culture is the shared values and practices that define how a team works. A strong culture recruits great people and keeps them — here’s what to build it around.
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Generative AI in Lending
India’s lending market is projected to grow from $1.2 trillion to $3.5 trillion. Generative AI can automate underwriting, catch fraud and open new product categories — but smart solutions are still rare.
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How to Setup Microsoft Word to Post to WordPress
WordPress’s Gutenberg editor hides too many advanced options in the pursuit of simplicity. After a year-long writing hiatus I discovered something worth sharing: Microsoft Word can publish directly to WordPress.
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Why ChatGPT is Going to Change Inbound Marketing
GPT-3 is capable of producing text that resembles human writing with remarkable fidelity. Its applications for inbound marketing, particularly through chatbot technology, are worth taking seriously.
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Nitropack Review
Those managing content management systems face a persistent challenge: improving site loading speed without adding complexity. Picking the right tool is genuinely difficult.
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Working with Markdown and GitBook
When I transitioned to leading the tech team at Homeville, the challenge of managing documentation across multiple microservices became immediately apparent. Here’s the system we built.
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Taking a Look at Jetpack Stats
I prefer Google Analytics. But I wanted to give Jetpack Stats a fair assessment rather than a dismissive one. Here is what I found.
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Understanding the __utmz Google Analytics Cookie
A technical walkthrough of what the __utmz cookie stores, how to read it, and why it matters for understanding traffic attribution.
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Bandwidth
On bandwidth as metaphor — personal, cognitive, emotional — and what quality of service looks like for a human being.
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IE8 — We Are Not the Devil Anymore
Microsoft’s commitment to Acid2 compliance in IE8 — and why it mattered after years of IE6’s legacy destroying developer productivity.
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Firefox Reaches 500M
On what half a billion downloads actually represents — and why Firefox’s success mattered for the open web.
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NetHack
The oldest game I still play and probably the deepest — on why NetHack is the closest thing in game form to learning a complex system from first principles.