Automation

why not do something magical with your coding skills?

why not do something magical with your coding skills?

Last week, I built a Zydeco and Cajun events calendar for someone who's been keeping the Bay Area dance scene alive for years. Total time invested: 3 hours. …

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Quality is the only moat left

Quality is the only moat left

The marginal cost of plausible bullshit is now effectively zero. When everyone can publish and AI handles the grunt work, what survives? Resonance.

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LLMs let you show, not tell

LLMs let you show, not tell

The Agile Manifesto nailed it: Working software over comprehensive documentation. Twenty years later, we're still writing specs nobody reads.

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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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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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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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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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