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The Smartest Thing SQL Does Is Play Dumb
Foreign keys enforce relationships on every insert, update, and delete. But the moment you query, you are on your own. By design.
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When Your Shell Script Outgrows Its "Shell"
Refactoring is not technical debt repayment. It is how production software stays honest.
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Conversation as an Interface
Skills, plugins, elaborate prompting systems: they feel productive. But the best interface for an LLM is the one it was designed for: conversation.
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Why I Built a Package WordPress Core Won't
The Gutenberg inspector sidebar ties your controls to a single tab. There is no escape hatch. So I built one.
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The Better Claude Is in Your Terminal
The desktop app gives you the conference talk. The terminal gives you the answer.
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How I Rendered One Billion Points in a Browser Tab
How offscreen buffers, raw pixel arrays, and Web Workers let a browser tab chew through one billion samples without breaking a sweat.
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Mermaid Flowcharts as Contracts for Agentic Development
Flowcharts are not implementation details. When treated as contracts, Mermaid diagrams become the most effective way to guide AI agents through complex codebases.
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Claude Code Plugins and the Case Against Repeating Your Dev Environment
DRY violations go beyond code. Claude Code plugins fix the repeated setup problem across projects, but the system has growing pains worth knowing about.
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WordPress CPTs and the REST API Read Permission Gap
Why WordPress REST API read permissions ignore your custom capabilities on private CPTs, and how to fix it with a custom controller and test it with Playwright.