Erdem Bircan

Erdem Bircan

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The Better Claude Is in Your Terminal
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3/15/20263 minutes read

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
3/13/20267 minutes read

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
3/10/20267 minutes read

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
3/6/20263 minutes read

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
2/18/20263 minutes read

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.

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