The practical side of technology
Practical stories about AI, software development, products, and the technology changing how we build and work.
AI agents now open pull requests, run migrations, and push to production, sometimes with barely a human glance. But when one of them wipes a database in nine seconds, "the AI did it" won't survive contact with an angry c...
Read articleAI has made building software look easier than ever, and suddenly everyone seems to be running an AI agency. But generating code, prototypes, and clever prompts isn't the same as engineering a reliabl...
When clients get too involved in UI/UX decisions, even well-planned websites and apps can become confusing and difficult...
I tested GPT-5.6 for weeks expecting it to become my default AI coding assistant. Then Claude Fable arrived and changed...
GitHub Copilot dropped its flat-rate subscription on June 1 and switched every interaction to token-based billing. For d...
I moved an n8n instance off managed cloud eight months ago. The paid tier was hitting $50/month for 200 daily workflow r...
Google just shipped Anti-gravity 2.0, and it's not another chat interface bolted onto a code editor. It's a standalone d...
Using AI in development feels productive until you're 20 minutes deep in a loop, watching a model undo its own fixes. Th...
Laravel 13 shipped with zero breaking changes, which means most developers upgraded and moved on. This covers the featur...
A reusable prompt library for web and app developers, covering architecture, frontend, backend, mobile, debugging, and d...
Every year there is a new framework, a new runtime, a new way of doing the thing you already know how to do. And every y...
Anthropic published a technical post last week that security researchers have been forwarding around with the kind of ur...
Learn how AI agents are replacing traditional glue code by orchestrating models, tools, APIs, and workflows into product...
There is a version of you that has spent three hours making a function 12% faster. The feature it lives in has not shipp...
Learn what an AI orchestration layer is, how it works, and why modern apps need it to coordinate models, tools, workflow...
Learn how to set up Passkey authentication in Laravel 13, step-by-step guide covering WebAuthn, Fortify integration, dat...
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