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An Interruption UX Worth Noticing
Claude Code's VS Code extension waits until you stop typing before surfacing a permission dialog, then restores your input exactly as you left it. A snap note on what that small decision reveals about interruption UX and user state preservation.
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In Defense of Every AI Opinion
Every position on AI in software development has valid ground. The thing that separates good outcomes from bad ones isn't the position itself. It's whether your product can handle that position's assumptions.
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How I Turned Data Pipeline Headaches Into a Python Library
After building two financial calculation engines and solving the same infrastructure problems from scratch each time, the patterns were consistent enough to turn into a reusable library. This is what that observation looked like.
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AI Has No Soul
AI can write the code, generate the art, and pass the demo. What it cannot do is leave something of itself in the work. That gap shows up in the parts of a product users actually feel.
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How I Keep AI in Its Place
Not every part of a software build should be handed to AI. Here is the framework I use to decide which parts should, and why getting that line wrong is harder to notice than it sounds.
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Writing Python Docstrings for MkDocs
A compact, Markdown-first docstring style for Python projects that auto-generate API reference pages with MkDocs, keeping exact API facts close to code without duplicating them in guide pages.
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