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Sep 2, 2026 4 min read

pack.nvim: Neovim 0.12 Made Half of It Dead Code

Neovim 0.12 shipped native package management. Every plugin manager on the market was still carrying a git implementation it no longer needed.

neovim lua plugin-manager tooling

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Aug 20, 2026 4 min read

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DevIcons: Every Project Re-Solves the Same Icon Problem

Every crypto project re-solves the same icon problem badly. The fix was not an API — it was a URL scheme and a git repository.

svg icons cdn jsdelivr open-source

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Aug 20, 2026 6 min read

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Sourcerer: The Client Outlived the Server

A tool my team used in 2019 shut down and took our profiles with it. The client was open source — which meant the protocol was, which meant the missing half was buildable.

go kotlin protobuf postgres htmx

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Aug 19, 2026 5 min read

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distract.nvim: Terminal Graphics Fragment, Geometry Does Not

Terminal graphics fragment across a dozen incompatible capabilities. Supporting all of them usually means writing the project several times — unless the fallbacks agree on geometry.

neovim lua terminal graphics rust

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Aug 15, 2026 5 min read

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bsec: What Encryption Does Not Promise You

Secret sharing in small teams happens over DMs. The tools that fix it assume you have a platform team — and the ones that don't tend to oversell what their cryptography guarantees.

rust security cryptography cli secrets

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Aug 14, 2026 5 min read

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sendchamp-sdk: The Fork I Did Not Keep

I forked someone else's SDK to fix it, rewrote a third of it, and then did the part most forks never get to — sent it back and let it stop being mine.

typescript sdk open-source testing api-design

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Jul 15, 2026 4 min read

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socks-ssh: Correct Security That Breaks Local Development

Financial APIs allowlist IPs, which is correct security practice and makes local development structurally impossible. The fix should be narrow, not a full-tunnel VPN.

node typescript ssh networking developer-tools

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Jun 5, 2026 4 min read

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fedsdk: A Checksum That Proves Nothing

A routing number can pass its checksum and still belong to no bank on earth. Answering that properly usually means adding a network call to a keystroke.

typescript fintech npm edge validation

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Apr 17, 2026 4 min read

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Arduino-Nvim: Three Pickers and No Way to Ask

A plugin that needs to show you a list has to guess which selection UI you installed. Hardcoding one is the common answer and it is the wrong one.

neovim lua arduino plugin-architecture open-source

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Apr 17, 2026 4 min read

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arduino-tui: A Search Problem Wearing a Package Manager's Clothes

Finding an Arduino library is a search problem wearing a package manager's clothes. arduino-cli has all the answers and none of the workflow.

rust tui arduino embedded developer-tools

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Mar 18, 2026 4 min read

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Subbox: Choosing a Renderer That Cannot Do Everything

Turning a thought into a shareable graphic takes fifteen minutes of design-tool detour. The fix was picking a renderer that deliberately cannot do everything.

nextjs typescript satori design-tools rendering

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Mar 1, 2026 4 min read

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AlatPay CLI: Debugging a Webhook You Cannot Receive

The event you need to debug is sent by someone else's server to a publicly reachable URL. On a laptop behind NAT, that is not a URL you have.

go webhooks payments developer-tools cli

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Feb 20, 2026 4 min read

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aikomail: Email Verification Is Not a Boolean

Email verification is sold as a boolean. It is really five checks of decreasing confidence, and the last one exists to tell you the others were meaningless.

go email smtp dns backend

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Feb 16, 2026 6 min read

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aikodb: The Two Commands That Are Not Database Commands

A test suite written in another language can only see what your program prints. So two commands exist in the database purely so the tests can see inside it.

c databases b-tree testing systems

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Jan 16, 2026 6 min read

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Aiko AI: The Agent Was Easy, the Diff Was Not

Wiring three LLM agents into a plan-write-verify loop took an afternoon. Getting their output to actually apply to a file took considerably longer.

python ai agents langgraph docker

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May 4, 2023 4 min read

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Github SSH key Setup

A comprehensive guide on setting up SSH keys for GitHub on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

github ssh git

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Nov 23, 2022 2 min read

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Resolving "react exit with code 0" when running a React container

A guide on diagnosing and fixing the common "react exit with code 0" error when running React applications inside Docker containers.

docker react

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Feb 10, 2021 2 min read

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Fixing Failed NPM TEST on Default Ember Boilerplate on Linux

A guide for Linux users on resolving issues with the default Ember test process that expects Chrome to be installed.

ember test

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Aug 14, 2020 4 min read

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Environmental Variables in Python

Before we begin let's look at our little vocabulary: ENV = Environmental Variable, ENVs = Environmental Variables. A guide on using ENVs for automation and security in Python scripts.

env python

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