IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
28 Feb 2026 · 43 min read
compliance
Part 6 of 10 — COPPA fines start at $50,000 per violation. GDPR penalties can reach 4% of revenue. This isn't optional. Here's how we built KidSpark to be compliant from day one.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 13 min read
ai
Part 2 of 7 — A five-phase workflow for AI-assisted legacy migration. From assessment to ship, with tool recommendations, team role definitions, and the prompt patterns that actually work.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 10 of 12 — How AI transforms the DevOps/Platform Engineer role: AI-assisted pipeline generation, incident diagnosis, capacity planning, GitOps automation, and the operational judgment that keeps systems running and teams unblocked.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
audio-streaming
Part 3 of 7 — The complete, production-ready code for integrating Azure Foundry Voice Live into a Next.js app. Full WebSocket proxy, useVoiceLive hook, audio capture and playback — every line explained.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
azure
Part 2 of 7 — From zero to a working Azure Foundry Voice Live connection in under 30 minutes. Covers resource provisioning, region selection for minimum latency, authentication, and your Next.js project scaffold.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Part 9 of 12 — How AI transforms the Security Engineer role: AI-assisted threat modelling, automated SAST/DAST pipelines, dependency scanning, security policy generation, and the human security judgment that keeps systems and users safe.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
azure
Bonus Part 8 — Testing real-time voice AI is notoriously hard. Learn strategies for mocking, latency benchmarking, and LLM-as-judge evaluation. Then build a transcript analysis system that generates a scored interview report with specific action items.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 12 min read
automation
A zero-assumption walkthrough for manual testers writing their first automated test. Install Node.js, set up Playwright, understand locators, write real tests, and debug failures. Part 3 of the QC team's guide to automation with AI.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
audit
The definitive technical SEO audit checklist for 2026. Covers crawlability, indexation, site architecture, structured data, Core Web Vitals, mobile-first indexing, and AI-readiness. Part 2 of the SEO Leader's Complete Playbook.
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