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I Used Jev to Categorize 2,000 URLs for a Research Project
I ran 2,000 URLs from different sites through Jev over OpenRouter to categorize them for a research project. Here's the setup and where a decision model earns its place.
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Stop Handing Your AI Agents (and Your Deploy Scripts) the Keys to Everything
Personal access tokens give deploy scripts and AI agents unlimited blast radius. The fix is short-lived GitHub App tokens minted per deploy and revoked seconds later.
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How I Stopped Getting Surprised by My Own Code
Explore first, document the plan, then build. This one shift stopped my code reviews from being full of surprises — and made every feature genuinely easier to trust.
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Logging Is Infrastructure: What I Learned Wiring Pino Into a NestJS API
Logging felt like a boring swap — console.log for pino. Instead it unlocked structured, traceable, secure production logs. Here's why AsyncLocalStorage, JSON, and request IDs change everything.
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Your Codebase Has Three Readers Now — and One of Them Is an AI Agent
AI agents are reading your codebase. The question is whether it's written for them.
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A/B Routing With Nginx: No Third-Party Tools Required
Nginx can handle A/B routing natively — no LaunchDarkly, no Optimizely, no SDK. Three directives and a cookie. Here's how it works.
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Why MCP Is the Missing Piece in AI-Assisted Development
MCP bridges outdated AI training and current library knowledge for confident, accurate code generation.
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Reading Code in the AI Era: The Skill That Matters More Than Ever
AI was supposed to make coding easier. Instead, it made reading code more critical. We shifted from writing to reviewing. The 10:1 ratio holds—the stakes just got higher.
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Laravel MCP: Production-Ready AI Integration Done Right
Laravel MCP brings the framework's production-ready foundation—dependency injection, validation, authentication, rate limiting—directly to AI integration. No more cobbling together custom solutions or...
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