Notes from the workshop.
Long-form writing on engineering, design, and the slow craft of shipping software that ages well.
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AI coding is a local optimization
Why AI-first engineering only creates business value when it improves the whole delivery system, not just the speed of producing code.
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Building robust stateful agents with Effect and Cloudflare Durable Objects
Treating the Durable Object as a thin adapter: Effect runtimes, injectable DoContext, SQLite repositories, and Vitest without Miniflare.
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Before you hire an AI coding agent, fix your contracts
Why the teams that get leverage from AI aren’t the ones with the flashiest model—they’re the ones with enforceable engineering contracts at three layers: code, tests, and human–agent specs.
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Cognition as a service: LLMs as infrastructure
A practical framework for selecting, integrating, and treating LLMs as core infrastructure in modern software development.
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How to run a LLM local in your web app
Run small open-source LLMs in the browser with WebLLM and WebGPU, explore Hugging Face, and what it means for privacy and your stack.
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Data Fetching in Next.js with higher-order functions
An advanced pattern that speeds up the development of pages by reusing common data and behavior requirements.
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Using React Hooks to sync your component state and the URL query string
Use React state and the query string together: helpers with query-string, a small useQueryString hook, and a react-bootstrap Tabs example on CodeSandbox.
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An overview of the Politeia system architecture
A concise tour of Politeia’s off-chain governance stack: politeiawww, the daemon, git-backed records, and how proposals anchor to the Decred chain.