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Getting Started with Claude Code — And Why It's Not Just Another Cursor

Mar 25 · 10 min read · I've been coding for 14+ years. I've used many IDEs, every AI tool (Devin to Qoder, Lovable,. ), every "next big thing." When I switched to Claude Code, it felt different. Not "oh cool, another copilo

I Built a Self-Measuring Hook System for Claude Code — Here's What 427+ Automated Runs Taught Me

Mar 20 · 10 min read · Most people using AI coding agents treat them like a magic autocomplete. Type a prompt, get code, ship it. I did that too. Then things started breaking in weird ways — production code without tests, f

MongoDB ObjectID: anatomy of a distributed identifier

Mar 4 · 9 min read · MongoDB's default ObjectID exists because distributed databases cannot afford the coordination cost of sequential integers. Rather than relying on a single authority to hand out the next number — a bo

Stop Chasing Your Team: How to Build High-Agency Engineering Cultures

Feb 3 · 4 min read · From Follow-up Machine to High-Agency Team: A Guide to Real Ownership Ever feel like your main job is just being a human reminder? You spend your day asking for updates, checking if a PR was reviewed, or wondering why a task hasn't moved in three day...

Viewstamped Replication

Nov 13, 2025 · 7 min read · Introduction Imagine you and your two best friends are keeping score in a video game. One friend is the "scorekeeper" and announces all the points. But what if the scorekeeper's controller breaks mid-game? You need a way to agree on the score without...