The long ones

Longer technical essays on architecture, tooling, and the details that only show up once something is running in production.

12 articles tagged Technical

Cover for One text message can make a silent phone ring
Technical 6 min

One text message can make a silent phone ring

Even when your phone is on silent, you can write an automation that blasts an alarm at 100% volume. This automation is for iPhones so simple, takes you less than 10 mins.

Cover for Forget SEO, the next fight is AEO and GEO
Technical 8 min

Forget SEO, the next fight is AEO and GEO

Ranking first stopped being the prize the moment the answer stopped linking anywhere. The new game is whether a model names you, and it is already being gamed with thirteen words on Reddit.

Cover for No real CAPTCHA will ever ask you to open your terminal
Technical 6 min

No real CAPTCHA will ever ask you to open your terminal

A reader went to apply for an international driving permit and got a Cloudflare check that told him to open Windows Terminal and paste a command. The command was a one-line infostealer.

Cover for Most people use five Claude Code commands. I use twenty-five.
Technical 7 min

Most people use five Claude Code commands. I use twenty-five.

Prompting is not what separates a fast Claude Code user from a slow one. It is the slash commands they never learned were sitting right there.

Cover for I watched the Claude Best Practises video so you don't have to
Technical 6 min

I watched the Claude Best Practises video so you don't have to

Anthropic's own engineer spent twenty-five minutes on how to use Claude Code well. I watched it twice and kept the four habits that actually changed how I work.

Cover for Instagram should not be this fast
Technical 7 min

Instagram should not be this fast

Serving an Instagram post sounds simple. Doing it for ten people, then ten million, then for MrBeast, takes three different machines stacked on top of each other.

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Technical 8 min

Google teaches you how to AI-Optimise your site

Every consultant is selling llms.txt files, AI-specific schema, and content chunking as the new SEO meta. Google's official guide says none of that does anything. Here is what you actually edit on your site this week.

Cover for These are my top 5 takeaways from Anthropic Skilljar
Technical 7 min

These are my top 5 takeaways from Anthropic Skilljar

I used Claude almost daily for 1.5 years and was using maybe 20% of the product. The other 80% lives one layer below the chat window and the curriculum is what finally showed me where to look.

Cover for Writing code stopped being the job
Technical 7 min

Writing code stopped being the job

Stack Overflow lost 76% of its questions. 75% of new code at Google is now AI-generated. The job we used to call 'writing code' is not the job anymore.

Cover for Justfile is twelve lines and saves me hours a week
Technical 7 min

Justfile is twelve lines and saves me hours a week

A few lines of text per project, hours back every week. Justfile is the smallest tool in my stack and the one that pays the most.

Cover for This is why Astro.js should be your preferred tech stack
Technical 6 min

This is why Astro.js should be your preferred tech stack

Most frameworks ship a JavaScript runtime to render a page that is mostly text. Astro.js does not. That single decision is why your site will load faster, rank higher, and stop costing you in bundle size.

Cover for How to deploy your custom website for FREE
Technical 6 min

How to deploy your custom website for FREE

One GitHub repo, one Cloudflare project, zero deployment scripts. That is the entire pipeline, and it has never let me down.

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