Somewhere in my warehouse app, there’s a text box roomy enough to propose marriage in. It’s rated to hold four characters. The database schema was unambiguous on this point: order […]
“I Blamed the Wrong AI for My Own Bug”
I’ve got two AI assistants writing code with me these days, and it turns out they both learned the exact same excuse in kindergarten: it wasn’t me. Bug number one […]
I Killed a Live Process on Purpose. It Came Back Faster Than I Could Type.
I found a process ID for order #6, and I whacked it. Good and dead. No warning, no graceful shutdown, just: gone. Before I could even confirm it was fully […]
I Dueled a Potion Named Elixir for Four Days. I Won. I’m Still Dazed.
I dueled a potion named Elixir for four days. I won. I’m still dazed, still confused, and fairly sure I’m still under the spell. Turns out “Elixir” is also a […]
My Junk Drawer of Python Libraries, and the MCP Feature That Finally Cleaned It Out
My pip install history looks like a junk drawer. Pillow for images. python-docx for Word files. PyPDF2 for PDFs. openpyxl for spreadsheets. imageio for whatever Pillow refuses to touch. Six […]
PHP Never Made Me Wait For Anything. Then I Met Python’s Claude API Examples.
PHP has a function literally called die(). Not a metaphor, not slang — an actual keyword sitting right there in the language. Ask it something, it answers immediately, or the […]
Four Dead Projects and the Line of ‘Code’ That Would’ve Saved Them
I have four Claude API projects on this site. A legacy code explainer. A contract analyzer. A changelog generator. A job scrub pipeline. All of them work. All of them […]
Nobody Invented This. They Just Found It Again.
Every time an AI answer types itself out on your screen, word by word, you’re watching a nineteen-year-old technology finally get a job it’s actually good at. Server-Sent Events. Concept […]
Anthropic Gave Away MCP. That Wasn’t Generosity. That Was the Move.
I want to talk about something the MCP course glosses over entirely. Not the technical spec. Not the primitives. Not how to wire up a server. The politics. The Industry […]
I Got Gaslit by a Multiple Choice Question. Here’s What MCP Actually Is.
I want to tell you about the specific flavor of wrong that is being marked incorrect on a certification quiz using your own reasoning. Not wrong because you misunderstood. Not […]