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July 7, 2026
The Claude skill that stopped me from fake-learning
Reading a good explanation and actually understanding something are two different activities — and only one involves you doing any work. A tiny Claude skill called /teach-me forces the second one.
June 30, 2026
Passion is a wonderful thing to chase. Fascination is another way to get there.
Passion is a wonderful thing to chase. Fascination is another way to get there.
June 15, 2026
The $0.09 question: when a cheaper model is the right call
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super costs a fraction of Claude Sonnet and matches it on a surprising number of jobs. Here's where that trade actually pays off — and where it doesn't.
June 3, 2026
The $500 million invoice: how to stop LLM spend from running away
Three companies, same shape of problem — give capable people a metered tool with no guardrails and spend climbs faster than anyone expects. Here's how AWS Bedrock's native controls fix all of it.
May 26, 2026
Atlassian's edge platform — a deep dive on the architecture
A walk-through of the self-service load balancing platform Vasilios Syrakis built at Atlassian — an Open Service Broker, an Envoy xDS control plane (Sovereign), and the AMI pipeline that glued it all together. Six layers, end to end.
May 19, 2026
The Site Reliability Engineer: the person who keeps your business online
Or — why the people you've never heard of are often the reason you still have customers. What SRE is, where it came from, what they do all day, and what happens to a business that needs one but doesn't have one.
May 12, 2026
Claude Code on AWS Bedrock: An Enterprise Architecture Your CFO, CIO, and CISO Will All Sign Off On
Same tool developers already love. Your cloud. Your rules. A deep dive into running Claude Code through Amazon Bedrock — identity, cost control, observability, security, and ROI.
May 10, 2026
Your .gitignore Is Doing More Work Than You Think
A line-by-line tour of a Claude Code .gitignore — what each entry protects, what would break without it, and the three rules that explain every pattern.
May 4, 2026
Getting Started with Claude Code Plugins
What plugins are, a side-by-side example with and without them, and how I decide which ones earn a spot in my workflow.
April 18, 2026
Claude + Obsidian: Build a Personal Knowledge Base That Thinks With You (MacOS/iCloud/IOS Setup)
How to turn Obsidian into an AI-powered knowledge base — clip anything from the web, drop it in an inbox, and let Claude Code organize, connect, and retrieve it for you.