An Agent Can't Offer an MCP Tool It Can't See
MCP discovery tells an agent how to authenticate, not what a tool does. When a tool sits behind per-user login, static metadata is the fix, not a smarter model.
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Descope by Context, Not by Headcount
When your team is overloaded, don't descope by task count. Hand off the work that costs the least context to lose, not the biggest item on the board.
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Put the Guardrail in the Code, Not the Prompt
Hard limits for AI agents belong in code, not the prompt: the model reads prompt rules and breaks them. Plus the deny-by-default trap that does nothing.
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AI Finds the Issue. Then It Throws the Hot Potato.
AI made finding code issues free, but owning the fix still needs a human. Why finding throughput is a vanity metric and the hand-back is the real work.
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Simplicity Is Invisible by Design. That Makes It a Management Problem.
Engineering teams reward complexity by accident because simplicity leaves no artifact. Four ways a manager can make avoided complexity visible.
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Meet APE — Agentic Product Engineering
We shipped a greenfield project in three weeks by building the system around the AI models, not the prompts. I call it APE: Agentic Product Engineering.
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AI Engineering Workflows Are Built for One Orchestrator. Here's What Breaks at Team Scale.
AI engineering workflows assume one expert orchestrator. Here's what breaks when five engineers run agent sessions on one codebase — and our fix.
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AI Coding Workflow: What Actually Worked
AI-assisted coding patterns that actually work, from months of experiments: two case studies — delegated testing and parallel review with Claude Code.
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Mastra Workflows: A Complete Guide with Code Examples
Build Mastra AI workflows step by step — parallel steps, branching, suspend/resume, multi-agent, and serverless deployment — with TypeScript examples.
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Mastra: An AI Framework Built for TypeScript, Not Ported to It
Mastra is a TypeScript-native AI framework — typed agents and workflows, a local dev sandbox, memory, and built-in evals. Built for how you already code.
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An introduction to start using Eleventy
Eleventy, or 11ty, is a powerful yet straightforward static site generator. It does not require any config to get started.
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4 ways to use Axios interceptors
Axios interceptors are a powerful way to manage HTTP requests. Learn 4 ways to use them: handle errors, add headers, transform data, and more.
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My new mac setup for web development in 2021
My 2021 Mac setup for web development: a detailed list of every tool I install from scratch to handle day-to-day dev work.
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2020 A year in review
My 2020 in review: welcoming our first baby and a year shipping JAMstack educational content — the highs, the lows, and lessons learned.
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Gatsby As a Replacement for Create-react-app
Gatsby vs create-react-app: both cut config, but Gatsby adds built-in performance, static rendering with no server, and a rich plugin ecosystem.
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Tl;Dr GraphQL
A quick intro to GraphQL, a query language and server-side runtime: define your types and fields, then write a resolver function for each.
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How to create a node js command line tool with yargs middleware
Build a Node.js CLI tool with yargs middleware by treating commands like server routes — for cleaner, reusable command-line programs.
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Developer friendly APIs using ES6 Proxies
Proxiy Object gives you the ability to intercept access to an object properties and change its behaviour.