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Three personal tools I built: a stock exit validator, a media compression pipeline and a doom-scroll blocker. Rule: use it first, expand only if it works.
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Three personal tools I built: a stock exit validator, a media compression pipeline and a doom-scroll blocker. Rule: use it first, expand only if it works.


How the Claude Code browser plugin passes browser context to the CLI so you can debug cloud problems like slow database queries in one AI workflow.


How I used Shamir's Secret Sharing to split a password into shares so I can't impulsively give in to doom scrolling, yet can still recover it.


How SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT affect running several instances on one port in Docker, and how to resolve port conflicts.


Generate Go unit tests and run them with coverage in VS Code using the Go extension's Test UI, with no boilerplate typing.


Set up Git commit, pull request, issue and release templates to save time and keep team contributions consistent, with working examples.


What .gitignore, .dockerignore and .npmignore do, when to use each, and how they keep repos clean, Docker images small and packages lean.


Install Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi to block ads for every device on your network, and set it as your router's DNS server.


Run Selenium WebDriver on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with the chromium-chromedriver package to automate browser tasks on a tiny device.


The post describes how you can access raspberry-pi from anywhere in two modes (web portal and ssh).


What steganography is, its types (text, image, audio, video, network), a Python image example with cryptosteganography and free tools to try.


7 Slack tips for developers: shortcuts, channel groups, slash commands, muting, search, saved items, and apps and integrations.


Say goodbye to hours of manually deleting unused node modules with NPKill. This npm library automates the process and helps you save time in just a few minutes.


Use git bisect to find the exact commit that introduced a bug: a step-by-step example with the commands, common gotchas and how to automate it.


Discover VSCodium, a community-driven alternative to Visual Studio Code. Learn why I switched from VSCode and how to install VSCodium on Windows
