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Two days chasing a sync bug. Every API call returned 200 OK. No errors in the console. The AI iterated confidently on symptoms while the architecture...
An AI wrote me a CI workflow. I understood maybe 40% of it. So I went line by line until I understood all of it. Here's what each piece does and why it's there.
An API-only combat game where building the client is part of the gameplay. No UI. No graphics. Just REST endpoints and strategic combat.
Part 2 of the SMS AI series. RAG transforms generic AI into useful AI. Here's how I added vector search, conversation memory, and production resilience.
Can I text an AI instead of opening another app? Turns out yes—and it validates a compelling business model.
Setting up payment processing is stressful enough without wondering if your webhooks actually work.
How I spent days debugging a silent Discord bot, only to discover the application itself was corrupted—and Discord gave zero indication anything was wrong.
Your translations work, but users have to dig through browser settings to change languages. Let's build a dropdown that remembers their choice with cookies.
You set up localization, created the .resx files, it compiled... and then nothing happened. Here's why .NET silently ignores your translations and how to...
Your test suite exists. It passes. But how much of your code does it actually test? Here's how to set up Codecov and stop living in denial.
I built a Discord bot to summarize hundreds of messages using OpenAI - then discovered that all Discord bots run as a single instance serving every server.
I asked two AIs to help debug performance issues. One maintained context and found the root cause.
A reusable task configuration for building, running, testing, and deploying multi-project ASP.NET solutions with Tailwind CSS, compound tasks...