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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 592 posts
Tools and Trends to Avoid in 2026 — A Curated Anti-Recommendation Deep Dive
A 2026 opinion piece on developer tools and trends that have aged badly — and the better choice that fills each gap. Not pure negativity: every AVOID is paired with an INSTEAD. From CRA, Moment.js, Yarn 1, Gulp, and loda
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #anti-pattern#tools-to-avoid#developer-tools#curation#retired-toolsBuilding an AI Teammate with a Slack Bot — Wiring Up Claude, Gemini, OpenClaw + Extending Tools with MCP (2026 Hands-On)
The highest-leverage surface for deploying AI isn't the IDE — it's Slack, where the whole team uses it, right where the work happens. This is a follow-along hands-on. Create a Slack app, stand up a minimal bot that respo
2026-05-14 · 16 min read #slack-bot#llm#claude#gemini#openclawThe 2026 Rising Open-Source Map — A Practitioner's Survey of OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow, Dify, and Ollama
A practitioner's survey of the open-source projects that exploded on GitHub in 2026. What OpenClaw, n8n, Langflow/Dify/Flowise, and Ollama are, why they're trending, when to use them, what the risks are — and how to vet
2026-05-14 · 16 min read #open-source#github#trending#openclaw#n8nReasoning Models in 2026 — A Deep Dive on o3, o4, DeepSeek R1, Claude Thinking, Gemini Deep Think, and QwQ
It has been about a year and a half since o1 (Sept 2024) opened the test-time compute axis. In 2026, 'reasoning models' are no longer a separate family — they are a mode that every frontier model can enter. This guide la
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #reasoning-models#o3#o4#deepseek-r1#claude-thinkingProject Management Tools 2026 Shootout — Linear · Notion · Height · Plane · Jira · GitHub Projects · ClickUp · Asana · Monday Deep Dive
A 2026 head-to-head of the nine project management tools engineering teams actually use. Linear's keyboard-and-design hegemony, Notion's wiki-plus-light-PM combo, Height's AI-native bet, Plane's open-source self-host, Ji
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #project-management#linear#notion#plane#jiraWorkflow Automation 2026 — Zapier, n8n, Make and RPA (UiPath, Power Automate): The Line Between iPaaS and RPA, and the AI Agent Crossover
Zapier sends an email. UiPath clicks a button in an ERP. They look similar, but they're not the same. This post draws the line between iPaaS (Zapier, Make, n8n) and RPA (UiPath, Power Automate, Automation Anywhere, Blue
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #workflow-automation#zapier#n8n#make#rpaPayment Infrastructure for Solo Developers and Micro-SaaS in 2026 — Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle, Creem Deep Dive
Payment infrastructure is the single variable that decides whether a solo developer spends a weekend on billing or three months. Build freely on Stripe, or pay 5% extra to a Merchant of Record (MoR) and offload tax, VAT,
2026-05-14 · 28 min read #payments#stripe#lemon-squeezy#polar#paddleBuild Your Own VS Code Extension and Language Server — A 2026 LSP Hands-On Guide
VS Code extensions and LSP aren't mysterious anymore. From Extension API basics — commands, providers, webviews — through the anatomy of LSP messages over JSON-RPC, building real servers with vscode-languageserver and to
2026-05-14 · 25 min read #vscode#vscode-extension#language-server#lsp#hands-onWorking with Legacy Code — How to Change Old, Scary, Untested Code Without Fear
Legacy code is code without tests, and code you are afraid to touch. And everyone inherits it eventually. The dilemma where changing safely needs tests but adding tests needs changes, characterization tests that pin curr
2026-05-14 · 29 min read #legacy-code#refactoring#characterization-tests#strangler-fig#technical-debtOpenTelemetry 2026 Deep Dive — OTLP, Semantic Conventions, the Collector Pipeline, and Auto-Instrumentation After the Standardization War
OpenTelemetry is no longer 'one of the competing options.' As of May 2026, OTLP is the single wire protocol every major observability vendor accepts, and HTTP / relational DB / messaging semantic conventions v1 are locke
2026-05-14 · 23 min read #opentelemetry#observability#traces#metrics#logsReal GPU Compute in the Browser — A Hands-On Guide to WebGPU Compute Shaders and WGSL in 2026
WebGPU's real attraction isn't 3D — it's compute. We run matrix math, ML inference, image filters and parallel reductions inside the browser, in WGSL, without CUDA and without wasm. Workgroups, dispatch, bind groups, sto
2026-05-14 · 17 min read #webgpu#compute-shader#wgsl#gpu-computing#browserThe 2026 Vector DB Landscape — Pinecone Serverless, Turbopuffer, pgvectorscale, Qdrant, Weaviate, Vespa, and What Actually Changed
The vector-DB comparison post you wrote in 2024 is already stale. Pinecone Serverless collapsed pricing, Turbopuffer put 2.5 trillion vectors on S3, pgvectorscale added StreamingDiskANN, Qdrant ripped out RocksDB, Weavia
2026-05-14 · 17 min read #vector-database#pinecone#turbopuffer#pgvector#qdrantObject Storage Egress Wars 2026: S3 vs R2 vs B2 vs Bunny vs Wasabi vs Tigris
Four years after Cloudflare R2 broke the egress paywall in 2022. As of 2026, this is a complete cost comparison of S3, R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Bunny, Tigris Data, R2 Catalog (Iceberg), Storj and more — with a real 1TB-
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #object-storage#s3#cloudflare-r2#backblaze-b2#wasabiTypeScript 6 and the tsc-go Port — `using`, Decorators, `satisfies`, Type Narrowing (A Practical Deep Dive for 2026)
The TypeScript of 2026 fits into two sentences. The compiler was rewritten (tsc-go, 10x faster). The language gained resource management (using / await using, Stage 3 ERM). In between sit standard decorators (Stage 3 / E
2026-05-14 · 18 min read #typescript#typescript-6#tsc-go#using-declarations#decoratorsFormatters and Linters in 2026 — The Real Place of Biome, dprint, Ruff, oxc, Prettier 4, and ESLint v9
The 2026 landscape of code formatters and linters is unrecognizable from five years ago. Biome 2, dprint, Ruff, and oxc — most rewritten in Rust, 10 to 100 times faster, and a real merger of formatter and linter is final
2026-05-14 · 30 min read #formatter#linter#biome#dprint#ruffTime and Productivity Tracking Tools 2026: Toggl, Clockify, Wakatime, RescueTime, Rize Deep Dive — Where Did Your Hours Actually Go?
From Toggl Track and Clockify to Wakatime, RescueTime, Rize.io, Timing, and the 2025-vintage newcomer Cosmos — a deep comparison of 2026 time tracking tools along the axes of manual vs automatic, code vs everything, priv
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #time-tracking#productivity#toggl#clockify#wakatimeTauri 2 — Does It Actually Replace Electron, or Is It a Different Tool?
More than a year after Tauri 2 GA, the promises — 10-40MB bundles, system webview, Rust core, iOS/Android — meet the field. We check the real trade-offs versus Electron, Wails, Neutralino, and native, the security model
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #tauri#tauri-2#electron#rust#desktop-appMLX Deep Dive — Apple's ML Framework for Apple Silicon: Unified Memory, Lazy Graphs, and the Mac-Native Flow (2026 Hands-On)
MLX is the array framework that Apple's ML team — the same people who previously built PyTorch and JAX — rewrote from scratch for Apple Silicon. The core thesis is one sentence: the M-series GPU shares RAM with the CPU,
2026-05-14 · 19 min read #mlx#apple-silicon#ml-framework#unified-memory#metalTailwind CSS 4 Deep Dive — Oxide Engine, Vite-First Architecture, CSS-First Config, and a Real v3 Migration Story for 2026
Tailwind CSS 4 is not a point release. It is a rewrite — the engine is in Rust, the JS config file is gone, the content array is gone, and the entire toolkit of modern CSS is now wired straight into the framework. A year
2026-05-14 · 18 min read #tailwind-css#tailwind-v4#oxide#vite#cssThe 2026 macOS Developer Productivity Stack — Raycast, Karabiner, Hammerspoon, Homebrew, Ghostty Deep Dive
Turn off Spotlight and move to Raycast. Remap Caps Lock to a Hyper key. Automate window placement with Hammerspoon. Restore a new Mac from a single Brewfile in 30 minutes. The 2026 macOS developer productivity stack is n
2026-05-14 · 19 min read #macos#productivity#developer-tools#raycast#karabiner