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The Layered Cake of Claude Code

May 3 · 20 min read · A practical, deep-dive map of Claude Code — what every folder, file, plugin, skill, hook, agent, and MCP actually does, how to compose them, how to swap the brain for OpenRouter or Ollama, and how it

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...