AI keeps speccing my projects on pre-AI timelines
AI assistants estimate effort using training data from before they existed, then push back when you try to spec faster. Working around it eats hours every week.
Spot the AI: can you tell which passage Claude wrote?
A small web game that shows you two short passages — one human, one Claude — and asks you to pick which one is the AI.
Bumping a PHP monorepo to 8.5: the mechanics
Sixty-seven packages, one CI matrix, one PHPStan target. What it takes to actually move the floor.
PHP 8.5 restraint: features we did not adopt
An upgrade is also a decision about what not to use. Property hooks, the pipe operator, and an array_find pass we mostly rejected.
Spec Kitty mission lifecycle: a domain modeling pass through Giiken
What a full Spec Kitty mission actually looks like end to end: spec, plan, tasks, implement, review, merge.
The PHP 8.5 deprecation sweep: from 34 warnings to zero
Three deprecation categories. Twenty-nine call sites. A test corpus that surfaces them all.
A beginner's guide to Git worktrees: What they are, why they matter, and how to use them without breaking anything
Learn what Git worktrees are, why they exist, and how to use them safely with a beginner-friendly workflow.
Hugo blog shortcodes: adding a visual component system to PaperMod
Six Hugo shortcodes that give your PaperMod blog callouts, steps, pull quotes, stats, before/after comparisons, and CTAs — built in one vibe coding session.
Day One of the Content Pipeline: What Broke and What I Fixed
First-run lessons from an automated content pipeline. Noise, human-only merges, and a backwards production step surfaced in 24 hours.
Remember when server-side rendering was just rendering?
How Waaseyaa’s SSR package renders HTML the way PHP always has, with Twig templates, field formatters, and a theme chain loader, no JavaScript runtime required.