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Productivity includes tips on how to use tools and software, process optimization, useful references, experience, and mindstate optimization.

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Tools Don’t Fix Broken Systems — Design Does

Tools Don’t Fix Broken Systems — Design Does

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The Promotion Gap: Why Engineers Get Overlooked

The Promotion Gap: Why Engineers Get Overlooked

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Building Advanced Modal Systems with State Management in daisyUI and Svelte

Building Advanced Modal Systems with State Management in daisyUI and Svelte

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Tu agente de IA tiene memoria de pez. Así lo solucioné.

Tu agente de IA tiene memoria de pez. Así lo solucioné.

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I Built a Tool That Turns Any OpenAPI Spec Into n8n Workflow Nodes in Seconds

I Built a Tool That Turns Any OpenAPI Spec Into n8n Workflow Nodes in Seconds

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Claude Code Remote: Your AI, Anywhere You Go

Claude Code Remote: Your AI, Anywhere You Go

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Why most businesses don’t actually need a “unique” backend

Why most businesses don’t actually need a “unique” backend

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How “Thinking Out Loud” Unlocked Clarity for My Dev Team (And How You Can Do It Too)

How “Thinking Out Loud” Unlocked Clarity for My Dev Team (And How You Can Do It Too)

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Concerning Amounts of Malware in the VS Code Marketplace: What Microsoft’s Own Logs Reveal

Concerning Amounts of Malware in the VS Code Marketplace: What Microsoft’s Own Logs Reveal

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The Spice: My GitHub Looked Great. I Felt Like a Fraud.

The Spice: My GitHub Looked Great. I Felt Like a Fraud.

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Stop Context Switching: How I Built a Tool to Generate Elite AI Prompts Inside VS Code

Stop Context Switching: How I Built a Tool to Generate Elite AI Prompts Inside VS Code

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10 Proven Ways to Improve Developer Productivity (Without Burning Out Your Team)

10 Proven Ways to Improve Developer Productivity (Without Burning Out Your Team)

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What is the value of a product that is 99% finished, if the remaining 1% still requires 90% of the time?

What is the value of a product that is 99% finished, if the remaining 1% still requires 90% of the time?

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Why “Busywork” Kills Creativity When I’m Just Trying to Experiment

Why “Busywork” Kills Creativity When I’m Just Trying to Experiment

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December 2025 VS Code Update (Version 1.108) – What’s New and Why It Matters

December 2025 VS Code Update (Version 1.108) – What’s New and Why It Matters

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Free Resume Bullet Rewriter (Impact-Focused)

Free Resume Bullet Rewriter (Impact-Focused)

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Code Review Best Practices: How to Review Code Without Slowing Teams Down

Code Review Best Practices: How to Review Code Without Slowing Teams Down

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I built an AI that detects your mood while coding (Locally in VS Code) 🧠✨

I built an AI that detects your mood while coding (Locally in VS Code) 🧠✨

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I Built a Simple MM to CM Converter Because I Got Tired of Googling It

I Built a Simple MM to CM Converter Because I Got Tired of Googling It

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Why email journaling works when apps never did (and why I built DailyInk)

Why email journaling works when apps never did (and why I built DailyInk)

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Memoization in React: Or How I Thought I Optimized My App (But Mostly Just Felt Productive)

Memoization in React: Or How I Thought I Optimized My App (But Mostly Just Felt Productive)

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Beyond RAG: Building Intelligent Memory Systems for AI Agents

Beyond RAG: Building Intelligent Memory Systems for AI Agents

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I was tired of copying .env files between machines, so we built a CLI

I was tired of copying .env files between machines, so we built a CLI

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I Thought I Knew How To Talk To AI: I Didn't

I Thought I Knew How To Talk To AI: I Didn't

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I got tired of waiting for Gradle, so I built a runtime that runs Kotlin like Python.

I got tired of waiting for Gradle, so I built a runtime that runs Kotlin like Python.

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