5 Apr 2026
Four gears of AI-assisted development: from coding to context
Developers are moving from copy-paste to orchestration. Each gear shifts what the human actually contributes.
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4 Apr 2026
Go schema-first and skeleton loading stops being a problem
The skeleton loading problem is a contract problem in disguise; explicit content schemas dissolve it.
30 Mar 2026
Why context engineering was always the job
AI knows the world in general but not your domain; the engineers who get real results were always doing the context work.
29 Mar 2026
The ladder was always context
Matteo Collina splits software engineering into three tiers (tech firms, enterprises, small businesses), and in each the bottleneck shifts from building code to holding context.
28 Mar 2026
Comprehension debt, when AI-generated code outpaces human understanding
AI-generated code is outpacing human understanding, and teams need to self-govern before someone else does.
27 Mar 2026
Content architecture: the delivery problem
The technology works, the design looks good, but content can't get to the reader — because nobody agreed on what a card is.
5 Mar 2026
11ty is dead, long live Build Awesome
The static site generator I've backed for years just got its future sorted.
4 Mar 2026
AI coding tools turned my once-a-year hobby project into a daily habit
Benj Edwards burned through 50 projects in two months with AI coding agents and I know the feeling.
3 Mar 2026
Blog art that belongs
Every post needs a hero image. Sometimes you don't need the perfect one — you just need something that doesn't clash.
2 Mar 2026
Semantic search on a static site, no API keys required
Vector embeddings at build time, cosine similarity in the browser. The same 23 MB model runs both sides.
28 Feb 2026
Site search without a search service
No API keys, no external service — just a build step and one HTML attribute.
25 Feb 2026
Collaborate on any webpage with a bookmarklet and URL state
Pin comments on any live webpage and share them as a URL with no account and zero cost. As in free.
22 Feb 2026
Two-way communication beats another shipped feature
Sometimes stepping back to understand your audience matters more than shipping the next feature.
20 Feb 2026
Feedback buttons without JavaScript, using a 1990s web pattern
A Cloudflare Worker is just a CGI script, and that's exactly what a static site needs.
16 Feb 2026
Your browser utility wants to be a floating palette
The floating palettes and window chrome of late-90s Mac OS may suit single-purpose browser utilities better than today's minimal UI.