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From Maker to Director: Training Your Taste and Judgment

When AI makes execution abundant, judgment becomes the scarce skill. Here's how to sharpen it.

Scheduled for November 2, 2025

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A Playbook for Multi-Agent Workflows

AI isn't just one partner—it's an entire ensemble of specialized agents working in concert. Here's how to conduct them.

Scheduled for October 29, 2025

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Refactoring Script for Copying Notes to use EffectTS

Walking through a refactor from imperative TypeScript to EffectTS, visualizing the flow with MermaidJS diagrams

Scheduled for October 23, 2025

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Starting Stomatiq Discord

Scheduled for October 23, 2025

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Structured Output Is The Only Way to Build Reliable AI

Free-form text from AI models is flexible. It's also untestable, unpredictable, and impossible to build on.

Scheduled for October 22, 2025

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The Best AI Is Invisible

Spotify Discover Weekly is AI. Your mom doesn't know that. And that's exactly why it works.

Scheduled for October 21, 2025

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Rocket Money VP of AI Engineering Vision

Scheduled for October 19, 2025

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How To Orchestrate Parallel Agents with The Director's Schedule

Work is no longer about focus blocks or meetings—it's about orchestrating parallel processes and intervening at critical state changes.

Scheduled for October 19, 2025

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10 ways to use Polly in Slack for more effective remote teams

Ten strategies for leveraging Polly in Slack to improve remote team collaboration, decision-making, and engagement

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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3 Best Retrospective Tools for Remote Team Collaboration

Discover the best retrospective tools for distributed teams looking to enhance their agile ceremonies and team reflection practices

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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5 Best Techniques For Getting Your Meetings Unstuck

Five proven methods to break through meeting gridlock and get your team back on track when discussions get stuck

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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A Deep Dive on the Variable Cost of AI

How AI companies handle the economics of power users versus casual users, and what token costs really mean compared to filling your gas tank

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Bet on the Future of Software

Exploring the future of software through AI proliferation, its impact on SaaS, and putting AI capabilities in users' hands

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Building a Community-Driven Content Voting System with Next.js and Supabase

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Creative Curiosity With Canvas Tools

A practical look at when and why to use canvas tools for thinking, organizing, and creative exploration

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Good AI Prompts Are Fences Not Maps

Good AI prompts define boundaries and constraints (fences) rather than step-by-step instructions (maps) to enable creative problem-solving

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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How Do I Pivot In The Middle of a Remote Design Sprint?

Practical guide for facilitators who need to change direction mid-sprint while maintaining team energy and momentum

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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How I use Git Submodules to Deploy My Blog

How to deploy a NextJS blog using Git submodules to separate public site code from private and public content repositories

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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How to use Bases in Obsidian

Master Obsidian's AND/OR filter logic to build complex database queries - learn how nested conditions combine and avoid common mistakes

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Netlify Redirects With _redirects File

Learn what a _redirects file is, how to use it, and how to deploy redirects for your Netlify-hosted site

Scheduled for October 18, 2025

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Why Claude Code Defaults to pnpm

Why Claude Code chooses pnpm as its default package manager - performance, disk efficiency, strict dependency resolution, and how to override it

Scheduled for October 17, 2025

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The Raised Bar and the Raised Floor: AI, Quality, and the Novelty Premium

AI raises the floor of baseline quality while raising the bar for differentiation, creating a novelty premium for taste and creative synthesis

Scheduled for October 16, 2025

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If I Started a New Startup

Setup everyone with AI tools, make videos every day, validate with revenue before hiring - hard-won wisdom from building and shutting down Plumb

Scheduled for October 14, 2025

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If I Started Plumb Again

Bootstrap instead of raise, focus on customization, keep the team small, and use Plumb as internal infrastructure for building vertical SaaS products

Scheduled for October 14, 2025

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The Accidental Winners of the AI Race

When AI agents recommend tools, they default to Next.js, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui. These developers won by building open-source abstractions so good that AI couldn't help but recommend them.

Scheduled for October 14, 2025

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The Power We've Ignored

How society has overvalued formal power while ignoring other types of power in government, corporations, and families

Scheduled for October 14, 2025

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Create Decision Frameworks, Not Decisions

Frameworks encode your judgment into systems that make the right choices self-evident

Scheduled for October 12, 2025

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OpenAI Agent Builder: The Accidental Gift to Workflow Automation

When the company with the deepest AI research access ships a 2015-style drag-and-drop builder, they're telling you something. Not about what's possible—about what's reliable. The gift wasn't the product. It was showing us the constraint.

Scheduled for October 12, 2025

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Unforced Errors

Recognizing and preventing unforced errors - when teams create problems by fixing what wasn't broken, over-engineering, or optimizing what didn't need improvement

Scheduled for October 12, 2025

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YAML vs JSON for LLM Token Efficiency - The Minification Truth

Pretty-printed JSON uses 101 tokens, YAML uses 133, but minified JSON only uses 41 - the comparison everyone gets wrong

Scheduled for October 11, 2025

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DAG Execution with Topological Sort - Kahn's Algorithm

Implementing Kahn's algorithm for workflow execution with cycle detection and disconnected node handling

Scheduled for October 10, 2025

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Set Up Non-Engineers to Push Code with AI Tools

Setup everyone with better local experiences with AI and constantly push forward. A new way of working that creates more businesses, not fewer jobs.

Scheduled for October 10, 2025

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Local-First Rapid Prototyping with Claude Code

Shared component library, isolated prototype directories, and fast iteration without context-switching to external tools

Scheduled for October 10, 2025

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What Linux Taught Me About Better Workflow Automation Tooling

Why configurable layers are the future of workflow automation, not copy-paste-and-find-what-to-update.

Scheduled for October 8, 2025

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How We Accidentally Killed 90% of Our Form Code (And You Can Too)

We deleted 10,000 lines of form code by using Zod schemas with metadata to generate TypeScript types, validation, and UI components from a single source of truth

Scheduled for January 16, 2025

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5 Best No Code Tools for Building Software for Non-Technical Founders

Essential no-code platforms that enable founders without coding skills to build and launch software products

Scheduled for June 11, 2023

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5 Best No Code Tools for Building Sprint Style MVPs

Essential no-code platforms that enable fast prototyping and building during design sprints and rapid development cycles

Scheduled for June 4, 2023

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7 Best Productivity Tools For Remote Software Engineers

Curated list of seven productivity tools that help remote software engineers stay focused, organized, and effective

Scheduled for May 28, 2023

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10 Most Important Work From Home Essentials For Remote Tech Workers

Critical equipment and environment factors that make remote work sustainable and productive for software developers and tech professionals

Scheduled for May 14, 2023

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7 Best Slack Integrations for Remote Team Collaboration

Seven powerful Slack integrations to streamline communication and workflows for distributed teams

Scheduled for April 22, 2023

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What I've Learned About Autonomy From Guitar Legends

Scheduled for March 2, 2023

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The Siren's Call of Custom Modularization

Comparing rigidly custom 3D-printed organizers to flexible modular systems - exploring principles of adaptable organization

Scheduled for December 19, 2022

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