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Practical engineering notes for software built to last.

Clear mental models for AI agents, Next.js architecture, and TypeScript—without the fog around them.

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06AI / agents

09Next.js architecture

02Types and tooling

01Applied intelligence

AI / Agents

Agent memory, model choice, orchestration, cost, and the distance between a clever prototype and dependable software.

07 articles

Agents01

September 12, 2026

Hermes Agent Explained: What Happens When AI Gets a Computer?

A practical guide to how Hermes combines models, tools, memory, skills, and automation to move beyond ordinary chat.

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Agents02

June 20, 2026

Writing effective claude.md / agents.md context

What research says about repository context files, and what useful agent guidance should actually contain.

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AI tooling03

May 30, 2026

Frontier Showdown: Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5

A practical comparison across repository work, terminal workflows, finance tasks, and reliability.

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Models04

May 16, 2026

Practical model evaluation for OpenCode and OpenRouter

Choosing affordable, intelligent, and genuinely useful OpenRouter models for agentic coding.

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AI tooling05

May 12, 2026

OpenRouter + OpenCode: a cheaper serious coding agent

A setup for cutting coding-agent token costs without giving up the models that do the hard work.

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Agents06

June 08, 2025

Building agentic projects that think for themselves

Give an agent enough structure to be useful—and enough room to reason when the script runs out.

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AI SDK07

May 05, 2025

Build complex autonomous agents with Vercel AI SDK

Tool calling, orchestration, and the distance between a chat demo and an actual workflow.

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02Systems and structure

Next.js Architecture

Rendering, caching, layouts, data boundaries, and the structural choices that keep an application understandable.

09 articles

Caching01

Apr. 19, 2026

The Next.js ISR Handbook: fresh pages without the rebuild

Regeneration, stale data, cache behavior, and the decisions behind fast pages that stay fresh.

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Layouts02

Apr. 11, 2026

The Next.js Layouts Handbook: the UI that never leaves

Persistent UI, nested routes, loading states, and the choices that quietly shape an app.

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Motion03

Nov. 16, 2025

The Next.js Motion Starter Handbook

Keep pages crawlable while adding animation that feels useful instead of theatrical.

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Visual systems04

Nov. 01, 2025

Animated mind maps in Next.js

Explain complicated ideas with React Flow, motion, and a useful amount of restraint.

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Data layer05

Oct. 18, 2025

Mastering Supabase service-role and admin keys

Server-side patterns for privileged work without sending secrets where they should never visit.

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Backend06

Oct. 12, 2025

The Next.js Backend Handbook

Server actions, route handlers, request boundaries, and the App Router backend mental model.

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Starter kit07

Sept. 28, 2025

Next.js Starter Shell

Get the boring project ceremony out of the way cleanly, then start building the real thing.

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Streaming08

Apr. 13, 2025

SEO meets UX: streaming, Suspense and loading

What users see, what crawlers receive, and what developers need to design between the two.

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i18n09

Jan. 01, 2025

Internationalization in Next.js App Router

Locale routing and the architecture choices that keep multilingual apps pleasantly sane.

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03Developer workflow

Types and Tooling

Useful constraints, local tooling, and quieter developer loops—with less ceremony and more certainty.

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TypeScript01

Nov. 20, 2025

TypeScript Omit: the art of removal

Constraints, cleaner props, and the rare joy of deleting precisely the right thing.

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Tooling02

Apr. 20, 2025

Zero-cost code assistance in VS Code

Local completions, model setup, editor ergonomics, and the tradeoffs worth knowing.

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