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Featured image of post Building a Multi-Currency App: The Edge Cases Nobody Warns You About
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Building a Multi-Currency App: The Edge Cases Nobody Warns You About

How Famorize handles global users: floating point errors, exchange rate drift, and the UX of money across borders.

Oct 22, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post OAuth2 and OIDC for Solo Developers: A Practical Setup With Docker
Craft Security

OAuth2 and OIDC for Solo Developers: A Practical Setup With Docker

Auth is always harder than it looks. Here is how I set up OIDC for my personal projects without spending a fortune on managed services.

Sep 15, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons from Building an 8-Agent Engineering Orchestra
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Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons from Building an 8-Agent Engineering Orchestra

What building CueMarshal taught me about real multi-agent design: role boundaries, permissions, identity, routing, and why orchestration matters more than agent count.

Aug 28, 2025
5 minute read
Featured image of post How I Wired Up an AI Tutor to Teach Like a Socratic Mentor โ€” Not a Cheater
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How I Wired Up an AI Tutor to Teach Like a Socratic Mentor โ€” Not a Cheater

Why most AI tutors are just homework-solvers, and how I used specific prompting and Bayesian Knowledge Tracing to make FireFly a real teacher.

Aug 05, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Feature Flags Done Right: A Pattern for Safer Production Deployments
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Feature Flags Done Right: A Pattern for Safer Production Deployments

How to move from 'one-off' flags to a solid feature management framework that actually reduces deployment risk in large organizations.

Jul 10, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Beyond CI/CD: Why AI Agents Are the Next Layer of Software Delivery
Agentic AI DevOps

Beyond CI/CD: Why AI Agents Are the Next Layer of Software Delivery

Traditional CI/CD is about deterministic pipelines. The next layer is agentic: handling the non-deterministic coordination that actually slows down engineering teams.

Jun 18, 2025
3 minute read
Featured image of post Teaching Kids to Code With Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: Why I Built FireFly
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Teaching Kids to Code With Bayesian Knowledge Tracing: Why I Built FireFly

Why I built FireFly around mastery, not streaks: using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, visual execution, and age-adaptive tutoring to help kids actually understand code.

May 08, 2025
5 minute read
Featured image of post The DORA Report Was Right: IDPs Improve Team Productivity by 10% โ€” Here's How I've Seen It
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The DORA Report Was Right: IDPs Improve Team Productivity by 10% โ€” Here's How I've Seen It

Why the DORA platform engineering findings rang true to me, and what I have learned from building delivery standards, templates, and paved roads that actually help teams move faster.

Apr 10, 2025
5 minute read
Featured image of post MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers
Agentic AI Platform Engineering

MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers

Why MCP matters in practice: not as another AI buzzword, but as a clean protocol for connecting models to real tools, systems, and delivery workflows.

Mar 20, 2025
4 minute read
Featured image of post Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)
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Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)

Why I started building CueMarshal: not to replace engineers, but to turn Git, reviews, and automation into a more practical coordination layer for software delivery.

Feb 15, 2025
6 minute read
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