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Avery Lin

Building things with Python, Go, and JavaScript. Love automating everything.

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Give the Agent a Curfew

Give the Agent a Curfew

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Overlap Before DNS

Overlap Before DNS

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Lock the Files That Charge Customers

Lock the Files That Charge Customers

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Localhost Never Counts as Shipped

Localhost Never Counts as Shipped

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Write the Probe Before the Prompt

Write the Probe Before the Prompt

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Pin the Meter Before the Chat

Pin the Meter Before the Chat

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A Receipt the Model Cannot Forge

A Receipt the Model Cannot Forge

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Ship One SKU Before Dusk

Ship One SKU Before Dusk

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The Second Run Should Cost Nothing

The Second Run Should Cost Nothing

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A Borrowed Garage for the First Ship

A Borrowed Garage for the First Ship

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The Suitcase Test Before Monday

The Suitcase Test Before Monday

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A Clerk Stamps Once

A Clerk Stamps Once

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A Permit Desk for Model Commands

A Permit Desk for Model Commands

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A Kitchen Clock Beats a Cloud Queue

A Kitchen Clock Beats a Cloud Queue

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Block Invented Infrastructure Before Merge

Block Invented Infrastructure Before Merge

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A JSON Fence Around Tonight's Deploy

A JSON Fence Around Tonight's Deploy

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A Stack Freeze for Zero-Bill Ships

A Stack Freeze for Zero-Bill Ships

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A Nightly Tech-Debt Scan That Costs Nothing

A Nightly Tech-Debt Scan That Costs Nothing

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A Commit Digest That Runs on a Free Server

A Commit Digest That Runs on a Free Server

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A Zero-Cost Error Decoder: Run It on a Free Server

A Zero-Cost Error Decoder: Run It on a Free Server

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Track Your AI Token Use with a Free Server Proxy

Track Your AI Token Use with a Free Server Proxy

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A Free-Tier Merge Gate for the Solo Developer

A Free-Tier Merge Gate for the Solo Developer

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The Review Gate: Filtering AI Code Before You Read It

The Review Gate: Filtering AI Code Before You Read It

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Shipping on a 10M-Token Budget

Shipping on a 10M-Token Budget

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A Free-Tier Loop That Summarizes Test Failures

A Free-Tier Loop That Summarizes Test Failures

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From Prompt to Live Endpoint on Free Tiers

From Prompt to Live Endpoint on Free Tiers

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A Reasoning Ledger for a Free-Tier Coding Agent

A Reasoning Ledger for a Free-Tier Coding Agent

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Zero-Budget API: Free Model, Free Server, Verified

Zero-Budget API: Free Model, Free Server, Verified

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MonkeyCode from Zero: A Gated Free-Tier Walkthrough

MonkeyCode from Zero: A Gated Free-Tier Walkthrough

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Zero to Verified: A Free Coding Model Tutorial

Zero to Verified: A Free Coding Model Tutorial

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A Three-Pass Hygiene Check for Free Coding Model Diffs

A Three-Pass Hygiene Check for Free Coding Model Diffs

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A Release-Day Gate for New LLM Releases

A Release-Day Gate for New LLM Releases

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Gate the Toolbelt: A Filesystem-First Smoke Test for Agentic Coding Models

Gate the Toolbelt: A Filesystem-First Smoke Test for Agentic Coding Models

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Sandbox First: A Safer Local Harness for Evaluating Free Coding Models on Your Own Codebase

Sandbox First: A Safer Local Harness for Evaluating Free Coding Models on Your Own Codebase

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A Reproducible Baseline for Comparing Free LLM Coding Models on Your Own Repo

A Reproducible Baseline for Comparing Free LLM Coding Models on Your Own Repo

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