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Your New Tab Page Is the Most Wasted Real Estate in Your Browser — Here’s How I Reclaimed Mine

Forty-something open tabs, a fan that never stopped spinning, and a “new tab” that did nothing. So I built a small dashboard for myself — and one by one, it kil…

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My Laptop Now Commits Its Own Config

I published an article about surviving machine migrations. A week later, I discovered my own setup had already failed — and fixing it took git, symlinks, launch…

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Stop Using cron on Your Mac

I needed my machine to react to changes, not poll for them. The answer was a 20-year-old macOS feature almost nobody uses — and it beat cron in every way that m…

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Git’s Defaults Are Wasting Your Time

Here’s the git config I run on every machine — eleven global settings and twenty aliases, each one there because it kills a specific daily annoyance. Steal all…

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The Development Workspace Architecture I Wish I’d Built Years Ago

Your code isn’t the bottleneck. Your environment is. Most developers spend hours debating: React vs Vue Docker vs Podman Claude Code vs Cursor PostgreSQL vs MyS…

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Building a Modern LTI 1.3 Tool with Next.js and Node.js: The Ultimate Guide

If you have ever tried to build an integration for a Learning Management System (LMS) like Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard, you know the pain. Specifically, the p…

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