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Skip the API circus: /standup-report basics in 5 minutes, spend the rest of your time on storytelling

Skip the API circus: /standup-report basics in 5 minutes, spend the rest of your time on storytelling

Yesterday I needed standup reports. Instead of being stuck in SDK hell, I created a Claude slash command that took 5 minutes to set up using MCP.

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Applying Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles to Writing & Content

Applying Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles to Writing & Content

Walk into any marketing department or agency and you'll find a peculiar phenomenon: rooms full of people talking about content instead of creating it. Coming …

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In Defense of Working Alone

In Defense of Working Alone

Let's talk about the elephant in every conference room: corporate teamwork is largely a joke. You know it. We know it. But somehow, we're all still pretending …

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From Internal Shortcut to Business Critical: When Automation Becomes Infrastructure

From Internal Shortcut to Business Critical: When Automation Becomes Infrastructure

That Slack bot you built in a weekend? It's now processing 10k requests daily and nobody knows how it works. Learn how to manage the transition from personal …

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Putting it on Autopilot: Five Areas You Can Actually Fire-and-Forget as a Startup CISO

Putting it on Autopilot: Five Areas You Can Actually Fire-and-Forget as a Startup CISO

Stop cosplaying enterprise security. Here's what you can actually automate without losing sleep - from compliance to endpoint security.

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Security Theatre & What Actually Protects Your Code

Security Theatre & What Actually Protects Your Code

Your SOC 2 badge won't stop hackers. Here's what will - a hard look at security theater versus practices that actually work.

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Why Technical Leaders Need to Think Like Marketers

Why Technical Leaders Need to Think Like Marketers

Your code is elegant. Your architecture is sound. So why is nobody funding your project? Learn how to sell technical initiatives internally.

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Dock Timer Hack: Break Email Addiction with macOS Automation

Dock Timer Hack: Break Email Addiction with macOS Automation

A simple bash script that temporarily removes apps from your dock to break muscle memory habits and improve focus

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Skronk and Skreigh: Building an Irish Tune Practice Toolkit

Skronk and Skreigh: Building an Irish Tune Practice Toolkit

A Python tool for managing Irish traditional music practice sessions, extracting tune sets from recordings, and creating Spotify playlists with multiple …

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When Your Quote Collection Looks Like a Junk Drawer

When Your Quote Collection Looks Like a Junk Drawer

Learn how Claude Code automated the cleanup of 1300+ messy quotes into a standardized format. Transform years of copy-pasted wisdom into a working …

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Irish song of the day - with google sheets and pipedream

Irish song of the day - with google sheets and pipedream

Learning an Irish song of the day - every day - with google sheets and pipedream

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Getting better at Python / becoming a professional developer

Getting better at Python / becoming a professional developer

Getting better at Python / becoming a professional develope!

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YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

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Boosting Blog SEO with AI: Smarter Titles, Tags, and Meta Descriptions

Boosting Blog SEO with AI: Smarter Titles, Tags, and Meta Descriptions

Discover how AI can optimize your blog's titles, meta descriptions, and tags for better SEO without losing authenticity. Learn about the tools and processes …

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YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!

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SlackZen - just leave (tm) - and the noise of the modern office

SlackZen - just leave (tm) - and the noise of the modern office

SlackZen - just leave (tm). experience to clean feeling of just leaving a bunch of slack channels

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 Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps

Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps

Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps

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Building My Brand: A Hands-On Marketing Challenge for 2025

Building My Brand: A Hands-On Marketing Challenge for 2025

Join me on a journey to build my personal brand in 2025 using innovative marketing strategies and tools. Explore practical insights and learnings from my …

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Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing

Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing

Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing

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Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)

Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)

Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)

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Aqua and Hotkeys to write blogs posts quickly - and then Loom AI makes a surprise appearance!

Aqua and Hotkeys to write blogs posts quickly - and then Loom AI makes a surprise appearance!

Boost productivity with Aqua transcription hotkeys & discover Loom's AI-powered Linear ticket generation

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llm - for command line LLM Prototyping

llm - for command line LLM Prototyping

Speed up LLM prototyping with the 'llm' CLI tool - iterate prompts quickly using VS Code hotkeys

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Aliases I have known and loved

Aliases I have known and loved

Time-saving bash aliases and zsh configurations for developers working with Git, K8s, and AWS

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All about how I use VSCode - especially the integrated terminal

All about how I use VSCode - especially the integrated terminal

Master VSCode with terminal integration, essential plugins, and time-saving keyboard shortcuts

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Defect Injection testing - the lost art of 'Bedbugging'

Defect Injection testing - the lost art of 'Bedbugging'

Learn how defect injection (bedbugging) ensures your tests catch bugs using MITMProxy & Chaos Engineering

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read my blog posts to me, please? now with command line browser cleanup action!

read my blog posts to me, please? now with command line browser cleanup action!

Use w3m and macOS 'say' command to listen to blog posts while multitasking - simple CLI solution

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How to use just one task tracker without lock-in; well sorta

How to use just one task tracker without lock-in; well sorta

Python script to sync tasks between Linear and Things3, avoiding vendor lock-in while keeping privacy

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LLMs for Translating Silicon Valley to MBA speak

LLMs for Translating Silicon Valley to MBA speak

Use AI to bridge communication gaps between neurodivergent directness and workplace diplomacy

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Harnessing High Energy: Tips for Staying Productive

Harnessing High Energy: Tips for Staying Productive

Learn effective strategies to boost productivity and maintain focus as a high-energy professional. Discover tips for structuring work, maintaining balance, and …

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Slaying Software Zombies with LLMs (and lesser incantations)

Slaying Software Zombies with LLMs (and lesser incantations)

dealing with metacode (tests, docs, bugs, requirements etc...) that are no longer completely accurate (thus, zombies) due to not being in sync with the product …

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Provocative Post about Planning Products!

Provocative Post about Planning Products!

Explore bold strategies for prioritizing customer experience in product development. Learn how to avoid overplanning and focus on what truly matters to your …

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