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Portless by Vercel Labs replaces localhost port numbers with stable named URLs. Here's how it works, who it's for, and why AI coding agents care about it.

My cabin in Caswell Lakes runs on a solar panel array and a battery bank. In the summer, I have more power than I know what to do with — twenty hours of...

I gave away the first three chapters of my book for free. People told me I was crazy.

I split a cord of firewood last Tuesday morning before my first standup call.

It was negative thirty-eight outside and I had just written the most productive code of my entire year.

There's a narrative floating around tech Twitter that older engineers are going to get replaced by AI. That the twenty-three-year-old who grew up with...

I pivoted at forty-nine.

My NVMe drive died on the coldest day of last winter. -38F outside, the cabin heater had cycled off during the night, and by the time I woke up the indoor...

I broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

Last September I pulled a twenty-pound king salmon out of the Susitna River, brought it home to the cabin, and realized I had absolutely no idea what the...

Here's a truth that most side hustle advice ignores: when you're over fifty, you don't have the same tolerance for busywork that you did at twenty-five.

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I posted a thread on X last month about the mistakes I made deploying a Node.js application to DigitalOcean's App Platform. It got about 40,000...

A hands-on first look at gws, Google's new Workspace CLI. Covers Windows setup gotchas, MCP server integration with Claude Code, and practical agentic workflow patterns for Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.

The ingress-nginx controller retires March 2026. Your standalone NGINX gateway configs still work. Here's the complete setup with rate limiting, SSL, and Docker Compose.

Learn how to generate QR codes with Node.js — from basic PNG files to a full Express API with customization, bulk generation, and production tips.

Build production-grade SEO crawler tools for free using Claude Code and Open Claw. Five real projects with runnable JavaScript code. No subscriptions.

Compare Bruno vs Postman in 2026. We break down storage, pricing, performance, and collaboration to help you pick the right API client.

The story of a whiteboard frustration, a late-night coding session, and the absurdly fun journey of shipping a real product before the motivation wore off.