AI Coding Assistants
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#2822: Serverless E-Commerce: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure
Three open-source headless commerce engines that make serverless e-commerce actually viable.
#2798: Why AI Tooling Finally Makes Static Frameworks Practical
From thumbnails to SVGs — how Astro changes the media game compared to WordPress.
#2790: Git Hygiene for AI Coding Agents
How to keep your git repo clean when Claude is blazing through tasks — plus a recovery playbook for when things go sideways.
#2707: Foot Pedals vs USB Buttons: The Ergonomics of Dictation
Foot pedals, USB buttons, and under-desk macro pads for voice dictation — a deep dive into the hardware that makes AI dictation work.
#2694: When AI Agents Write Your Backup Scripts
Borg, Restic, and Kopia compared for whole-server incremental backups on Ubuntu Docker hosts.
#2691: The Usability Tax of Least Privilege
Is it time to let AI agents handle your API key creation and rotation? We explore the real security tradeoffs.
#2689: Why CLI Beats MCP for AI Agents Sometimes
Why a plain command-line tool can outperform a purpose-built MCP server for AI agents — and what that means for the protocol's future.
#2687: When Pre-Flight Checks Help (or Hurt) Agentic AI Plugins
How to decide when a pre-flight check is worth the latency cost — and how to write good ones.
#2685: Plugin Data Storage for AI Agents
How to separate user data from plugin code across Linux, macOS, and Windows in agentic AI environments.
#2683: MCP vs Agent Skills: Context Wars
When 12M token windows arrive, do MCP servers or agent skills win? Plus: federated access for agent teams.
#2682: Live Retrieval vs. RAG: What an Agent Actually Does
Does every AI conversation create a tiny vector store? We unpack the real tradeoffs between live document fetching and pre-indexed RAG.
#2675: When AI Makes Documentation Effortless
The key documents every consultant needs—and how AI makes them effortless to create and maintain.
#2674: Why Your Agent's Context Window Is Getting Eaten Before You Start
Stop shipping the whole toolbox to every session. A bridge plugin pattern that fetches skills on demand instead.
#2660: The Craft Cider Revival and the Art of Keeving
From Normandy's keeved ciders to Asturian sidra that argues with you — a global tour of craft cider's real hotspots.
#2644: Crafting Agendas That Actually Work (With AI)
Stop writing table-of-contents agendas. Learn the diplomat’s method for crafting meetings that actually achieve their goals.
#2636: Take Notes Like a Diplomat
What WikiLeaks cables teach us about capturing meetings: judgment over transcription, context over completeness.
#2621: Wartime Ingenuity: Powering Connectivity in a Faraday Cage
Four 18650 cells can't stack to 230V. The secret is switching, not stacking.
#2603: Defining the Agentic Workspace
How composable AI agent skills turn tedious media tasks into one-instruction operations for creatives.
#2602: Letting Non-Experts Direct Audio Tools Through Conversation
How to use AI for podcast mastering — and why agentic AI works better for small tasks than big promises.
#2578: Building Deliberately Slow Deployment Pipelines
How to build CI/CD pipelines designed as filters, not firehoses — with manual gates, staging environments, and quality checks.
#2574: Why You're Not "Too Old" to Learn a Language
Age isn't the barrier you think. What actually determines success—and how AI can help.
#2559: The Smartest Path to Python for AI
A practical guide to the best courses and platforms for learning Python, specifically for machine learning.
#2540: Does Your AI Framework Change the Output?
Same model, same prompts, different harness. Does the plumbing change the water?
#2535: Inside LangChain's Deep Agents: What's Actually in the Box
A deep dive into the batteries-included agent harness with terminal CLI, sub-agents, and production-ready evaluation.