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11 May

Back to Baseline

A sharpened stone and an agentic coding AI both offer utility. The sharpened stone assists in mobbing a prehistoric mastodon for dinner. The agentic AI helps reach a working solution with less manual coding. Both are tools, and neither is...
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15 Sep

Mini Miracle Machine

One of the best immediately current outcomes of “supercharged” AI coding is not its support of enterprise operations, which despite turning out large proportions of new code remains questionable. Of possibly superior interest is the production-ready code it can turn...
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16 May

Postgres, Sequelize, and CentOS 7: Quick & Dirty Resource Guide

The PostgreSQL variant of SQL is pretty popular these days, and its adopters are quick to point out a number of advantages. Like any system, though, it does take some getting used to, perhaps more so than other, more popular...
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17 Feb

When You Suddenly Hate Programming

Adapted and expanded from my response on Quora. From the outside, development work is an appealing opportunity. It’s in high demand, it pays well, and it lets you use your brain. Fun, right? Well, for many, yes! It...
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15 Feb

6 Ways to Learn Javascript in a Hurry

Javascript seems to be one of those things that people always want to learn in a hurry. Maybe it’s because most of them are students and students have neither time nor patience, maybe it’s because Javascript lends itself to being...
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30 Aug

Learning Jenkins: Example Projects

Learning Jenkins? Jenkins, a free continuous integration tool, is fantastic for handling large projects, and its abilities within its domain are practically limitless. But this benefit is a hindrance, too — getting started can be befuddling! The fundamentals of...
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