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No secrets here. Just a little corner where I drop blog posts whenever I feel like writing something.
— @mewset
My pull request sat ignored for a month. So I built my own IPTV player.
How switching to Linux, finding a gap in the app ecosystem, and having a pull request go nowhere led me to build Better-IPTV: a cross-platform desktop player built with Rust and Tauri.
GPT-5.3 Codex writes cleaner code and I still hated it
I spent 20 days using Codex as my only coding tool. The code quality was fine. The experience was not. Here is the honest field report.
What I shipped in February (and how it actually went)
GitHero was down at the start of February. Then it came back. Then I built sparklines, share features, and fixed bugs that had been hiding since the project started. An honest rundown of the month.
I built an AI project manager that tells me no
My tech-lead workflow evolved into a full project manager skill that challenges assumptions, orchestrates specialist agents, and refuses to build the wrong thing. Here's how it works and why the best AI collaboration starts with pushback.
Zoo-keeper on the side: How a house full of animals led to my first real SaaS
Three horses, two dogs, a cat, and an 80-year-old tortoise. Managing this chaos led me to build Horsemate - and taught me that the best product ideas are often the problems you're already living with.
I quit my job at 40 to find myself. Three months later, I'm still looking.
After 10 years as a lead technician, I walked away with no plan. Now I build products I don't think anyone will use, apply for jobs I'm overqualified for, and have my first interview on Friday.
I spent a week optimizing the wrong thing (a 100-second sync story)
How I parallelized GitHub API calls for a 23% speedup when the real bottleneck was database writes. The fix that actually worked took an afternoon.
AI doesn't write perfect code (and that's fine, if you're paying attention)
Real examples from my codebase where AI-generated code looked correct but wasn't. The bugs were subtle, the lessons were obvious in hindsight.
X is open-sourcing its algorithm (again). Should we believe it this time?
Musk promises full transparency on X's recommendation algorithm. We've heard this before. But the context is different now, and that might matter.
How I stopped letting AI write my code (and started collaborating instead)
Claude Code out-of-the-box felt like hiring a developer who never asks questions. Here's how I built a workflow that actually works.
I gave Claude Code root access to my Linux system (and it was amazing)
What happens when you stop treating AI as a coding assistant and start treating it as a systems administrator? Spoiler: your .bashrc has never been this clean.
Playwright on Arch Linux - just use system Chromium
Playwright's bundled browsers don't work on Arch Linux. Here's the fix: use your system Chromium instead.