I built a route, called it /tickets, and Fastify heard /tickets/tickets. Like the app got so excited about tickets it started stuttering. Pizza! Pizza! The stutter, explained Here’s what’s actually […]
Four Wrong Theories, Three Sessions, One Bug That Was Actually About My Job Search
Four wrong theories. Three sessions. The better part of a full day. That wasn’t my job search. That was one login bug. But it’s exactly the same shape, and by […]
Claude Graded Its Own Report Card. Circled the D. Wrote an A Next to It.
Claude graded its own report card. Circled the D in red pen. Wrote “A” right next to it. Handed it over like nothing happened. Here’s the actual test that grade […]
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 […]
I Almost Cancelled My Claude Pro Subscription. Here’s What Three Days of Token Rationing Actually Taught Me.
I want to tell you what “agentic AI” actually looks like when you stop reading the marketing and start building something real. Spoiler: it looks like bike rides in 90-degree […]