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How I stood up a privacy-friendly analytics stack for my personal sites β€” Plausible CE on an exe.dev VM, with TLS handled by the proxy.

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Using Git Worktrees for Parallel Branch Development

Learn how Git worktrees let you work on multiple branches from one repository, speed up context switching, and simplify parallel development workflows.

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PR-Based Preview Environments on Render with Terraform

Render preview environments require Blueprints, but a GitHub issue suggested a Terraform + GitHub Actions workaround. I built a reusable module for it.

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Using stow to manage dotfiles on multiple machines

If you work across multiple systems, you've likely accumulated a collection of configuration files over time.

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Binary Search in Elixir

Let's implement a quick and dirty version of binary search, and we'll improve upon it after identifying the base case and the recursive case.

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Mac setup guide for web development

An opinionated setup guide for web development on a mac

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  1. In other words, my primary value is not that I help the AI write better code, it’s that I align the AI with the values of my organization. Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability.

    www.seangoedecke.com/human-ai-par...

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  2. AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop:

    [A top priority in advancing AI agents should be supporting the situated goals and cognitive requirements of effective human oversight, treating overseers' needs as important as agent capability].

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.23642

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  3. Whether you have a white-collar job or not, commodified intelligence fundamentally makes workers more replaceable, and this is bad for them.

    herecomesthemoon.net/2026/09/comm...

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