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Can Claude Skills Save Us From The Smartphone?
May 1 · 8 min read · I have grown to hate the smartphone. It's a glorious piece of tech. But it's a trap built around usefulness. At 2 AM, I wake up and reach for my phone. I know it's not healthy but I do it out of necessity. I work with people in different timezones....
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Firestore Architecture For Scaling Read-Intensive Multi-Tenant Software
Apr 25 · 9 min read · When you research how to build a multi-tenant SaaS on Firestore, most articles stop at one idea: put a tenantId field on every document. That's true, but it's the easy half. The more tricky question is how do you arrange your collections so that read...
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Build Reliable Local Notifications in Flutter (Step-by-Step)
Apr 16 · 18 min read · Companion post to How I Built the Long Game Notification System. This is the walkthrough. If you want the thinking behind the decisions, read that first. If you just want the recipe, you're in the right place. What You're Building A notification sys...
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The People On The Other Side Of Your Upwork Proposal
Mar 30 · 8 min read · Upwork is increasingly getting difficult — or so they say. I've had quite a number of friends who created an account and abandoned it, and others curious about whether it's worth starting. The conversation kept repeating itself so I decided to write ...
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