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from my article A safe way to edit database content with AI coding tools AI coding tools edit files. Your content lives in a database. This is the pull, diff, push workflow that connects the two without hand-writing SQL against production.

mine · viewed 32 times a-make-prompt One job: turn a rough request into a finished, paste-ready prompt. Not a cure-all for prompting.

from my article AdGuard Home: network-wide ad blocking you control Part two of the AdGuard series. Running your own DNS server is better than trusting Cloudflare's. See what every device on your network is doing. Decide what it gets to see.

from my article Block ads on every device in 5 minutes with AdGuard DNS A simple DNS change blocks most ads on your phone, TV, and every other device. No apps to install, no technical skill required. Takes about five minutes.

from my article Capturing email and calendar without a mailbox API Microsoft Graph and IMAP were off the table, so I used Power Automate, OneDrive sync, and one 15-minute scheduled task to pull email and calendar into a local inbox.

from my article Don't replace your billing system (build around it instead) The graveyard of failed digital transformations is full of billing system replacement projects. The smartest companies build abstraction layers instead.

from my article Most of my AI pipeline isn't AI By volume, most of my AI pipeline is plain Python. The model is a small, expensive part I call as little as possible. The script-first split, and why it wins.

from my article My AI was smart. It just couldn't see my job. My work context was scattered across email, meetings, documents, and notes. So I wired it into a private Obsidian vault Claude Code can read.

from my article One app, many markets: the central vs. local paradox Build centrally and local markets hate you. Build locally and you drown in fragmentation. The model that actually works for multi-market digital products.

from my article One command a day: the skills that run the vault The whole control layer of my work system is a folder of markdown files. How a real workflow is built from Claude Code skills, rules, and parallel sub-agents.

from my article Stop trying to digitalize everything The biggest trap empowered digital teams fall into: trying to replace every legacy process. Solve for 80% of cases with clean journeys. The rest? Let it go.

from my article The app consolidation playbook Most app portfolios are 80% accident, 20% strategy. The interesting bit isn't deciding what to kill. It's keeping what works locally without paying for it everywhere.

from my article The laundry list trap: why half your roadmap doesn't matter We analyzed engagement across an entire app feature set. Over 40% of the scope generated less than 2% of engagement. This is how to avoid building features nobody uses.

from my article What is vibe coding (and why you already know how to do it) Andrej Karpathy called it "fully giving in to the vibes." Collins Dictionary made it Word of the Year. What vibe coding actually means, when it works, and how everything you've learned so far has been building toward it.

from my article Why renaming IT to product didn't fix anything You announced a digital transformation. You hired a CDO. You renamed the IT team to Product. Six months later, nothing has changed except the org chart.

from my article Writing CLAUDE.md: permanent memory for Claude Code Every time you start Claude Code, it forgets who you are. CLAUDE.md is a text file that gives it permanent memory. One file, read automatically at the start of every session.

from my article Your app isn't a service channel (it should be your business) Most companies treat their app as a self-service cost-saver. The ones winning treat it as their primary business channel. The evolution from service to engagement, in three phases.

from my article Your digital team needs to act like a startup Bean bags and hackathons aren't startup culture. The real difference is authority: who decides what to build, who can say no, and who's allowed to be wrong.