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The obsession with the perfect recipe and the hatred of ambiguity: the software developer's disease

The obsession with the perfect recipe and the hatred of ambiguity: the software developer's disease

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Why are software developers always looking for the 'perfect recipe'? A reflection on the use of AI, on the hatred of ambiguity, and on the true essence of software engineering. [...]

Claude Code mods: a glossary browser for Matt Pocock's domain-modeling skill

Claude Code mods: a glossary browser for Matt Pocock's domain-modeling skill

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How I used Claude Code mods to keep my repository's ubiquitous language visible while I work: a Glossary Browser for Matt Pocock's domain-modeling skill, with a Term Check that steers both me and the model toward the canonical terms. [...]

Building a monorepo for my Next.js blog: npm workspaces, Turborepo and three packages published on npm

Building a monorepo for my Next.js blog: npm workspaces, Turborepo and three packages published on npm

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How I turned my Next.js blog into an npm workspaces and Turborepo monorepo with seven workspaces, extracted a design system, a component store contract and a WebGPU matrix rain effect, and published three packages on npm with OIDC trusted publishing. [...]

Memories and failures: 18 years of a software engineering career, and the life around it

Memories and failures: 18 years of a software engineering career, and the life around it

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A personal essay looking back at my first 18 years as a software engineer, and the life, and the losses, that ran alongside them. [...]

The software engineer skills pyramid: how we encoded our own harness

The software engineer skills pyramid: how we encoded our own harness

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In this post we will show how we encoded our software development lifecycle in a set of custom skills and subagents. [...]

App.js Conf 2026

App.js Conf 2026

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My recap of App.js Conf 2026 in Krakow: talks, libraries, the 'elephant in the room' called AI [...]

Building an MCP server for my Next.js blog: how I gave AI assistants direct access to my content

Building an MCP server for my Next.js blog: how I gave AI assistants direct access to my content

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How I built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on top of my Next.js blog, covering the MCP protocol architecture, JSON-RPC transport, capability negotiation, Streamable HTTP, OAuth discovery, and a full TypeScript implementation deployed on Vercel. [...]