IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
27 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 more26 Feb 2026 · 13 min read
ai
What is AI hallucination? Why does AI invent facts? Learn detailed strategies for minimizing hallucinations in Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Cursor — from prompt engineering to RAG, grounding, and verification loops.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 18 min read
isr
Part 3 of 9 — Integrating Next.js 15 App Router with Umbraco's Content Delivery API using Server Components, building a reusable block renderer, ISR for content updates, and a marketing component library.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 14 min read
ai
Part 8 of 12 — Adding video analysis to voice interviews with Gemini Live's multimodal capabilities. Frame sampling, parallel processing, screen sharing for coding interviews, and keeping costs under $0.40 per session.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
ai
Part 1 of 7 — Two migration projects, a small team, a cost-conscious boss, and AI as the equalizer. Here's what the data says — and what nobody tells you about migrating legacy systems in 2025.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 54 min read
edtech
Part 5 of 10 — The features that make a kids learning app actually work: adaptive lessons, interactive quizzes, offline progress tracking, and gamification that motivates without manipulating.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
ai
The complete guide to SEO in 2026. From Google's AI Overviews to E-E-A-T, zero-click searches to multi-platform visibility — everything SEO teams need to know about ranking in the age of AI. Part 1 of the SEO Leader's Complete Playbook.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
english-learning
A casual conversation about system design at scale. Load balancing, caching, CDNs, and database sharding — explained with pizza delivery analogies you'll actually remember.
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