My First Week With GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion…
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Speeding Up Laravel Tests with tmpfs (MySQL in RAM)
If your Laravel test suite is painfully slow and does a lot of database work (multi-tenancy, migrations, seeding), the bottleneck is almost certainly disk…
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I needed a Mac to run a Laravel test suite. On my ThinkPad T15g with Docker, the tests took so long I gave up…
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If you have tech debt, you're now exponentially worse off, because you can't leverage the massive productivity gains that AI offers, while your competitors…
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If you have both a Claude subscription (Pro/Max) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable set, Claude Code will use the API key and bill you…
Read postBreaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (While Keeping Approval Controls)
If you're using OpenAI's Codex CLI, you might want it to work like Claude Code does by default: able to run powerful commands, but…
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Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs. The robots are coming for our work, right? But if you look at what's actually happening in companies…
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Moving to a new computer or switching from WSL to native Linux? Here's how to preserve all your Claude Code conversation history and make…
Read postConfiguring Claude Code for Privacy and Noise Control
If you're using Claude Code for development work, you might want to minimize telemetry, disable promotional messages, and keep your Git history clean. Here's…
Read postAI is Dumber on Mondays
It's Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by... creating the exact…
Read postWho will feed AI when traffic dies?
Most searches now end without a single click to an actual website. AI companies are training their models on publisher content while destroying the…
Read postSoftware Development Costs: Why AI Hasn’t Changed Prices
Everyone keeps asking if AI tools are making software development cheaper. The short answer is no. The long answer is more interesting. I've been…
Read postThinkPad External Monitor Lag: The Hybrid Graphics Problem My Lenovo ThinkPad T15g Gen 2 becomes almost unusable when connecting an external 4K monitor after…
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