Technical notes, project documentation, and lessons learned across software, DIY, writing, and more.
An AI wrote me a CI workflow. I understood maybe 40% of it. So I went line by line until I understood all of it. Here's what each piece does and why it's there.
An API-only combat game where building the client is part of the gameplay. No UI. No graphics. Just REST endpoints and strategic combat.
Part 2 of the SMS AI series. RAG transforms generic AI into useful AI. Here's how I added vector search, conversation memory, and production resilience.
Can I text an AI instead of opening another app? Turns out yes—and it validates a compelling business model. Here's how I built SMS-to-custom-LLM in ~40 lines of code.
Setting up payment processing is stressful enough without wondering if your webhooks actually work. Here's how to test them locally before real money is on the line.
How I spent days debugging a silent Discord bot, only to discover the application itself was corrupted—and Discord gave zero indication anything was wrong.
Your translations work, but users have to dig through browser settings to change languages. Let's build a dropdown that remembers their choice with cookies.
You set up localization, created the .resx files, it compiled... and then nothing happened. Here's why .NET silently ignores your translations and how to fix it.
Your test suite exists. It passes. But how much of your code does it actually test? Here's how to set up Codecov and stop living in denial.
I built a Discord bot to summarize hundreds of messages using OpenAI - then discovered that all Discord bots run as a single instance serving every server. Here's the journey.
I asked two AIs to help debug performance issues. One maintained context and found the root cause. The other kept saying 'likely your code does this' while looking at the actual code.
A reusable task configuration for building, running, testing, and deploying multi-project ASP.NET solutions with Tailwind CSS, compound tasks, and environment-specific deployments.