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What Is A Harness, Demystified
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Harness, harness. You've probably heard this relatively new term by now. Where does it come from?
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Evgeny Zhdanov
Pragmatic software engineer.
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Not Best Time For An Open Source Contributions
Today is definitely not the best time for open-source contributions. There are multiple questions that can't be answered freely, but the main one is: "Why do this anymore?".
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The Constant Frozen at Boot Bug: A Ruby Exercise For An Interview
A payment handler resolves its method ids into class-level constants. One day charges start landing with a NULL method and the only fix is a pod restart. Why? This is a real production bug that makes an excellent interview question.
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LLM Strikes Back But Not The Way We Wanted
We expected AI to boost our productivity 1000x with new possibilities, but we know that it is just a fairytale. Now everyone from housekeepers to presidents has access to AI on the web like ChatGPT, and we have to deal with that.
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Give Your LLM Brevity
If you're tired of your LLM writing poems for you and eating your limits, the caveman plugin will help.
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Multiple Git Configs Per Directory
How to override your default git config per directory so each project group gets its own identity
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Practical Useful Commands for Claude
A collection of practical commands and tips for getting the most out of Claude Code
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Disable Co-Authored-By Claude in Git Commits
How to disable the Co-Authored-By Claude boilerplate in your git commits
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OpenClaw Chameleon Hype
OpenClaw grabbed 184k GitHub stars in a month. Rails has 56k after 20 years. But should you really run a daemon with full access to your machine?
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How to Set Up Browser MCP in Claude Code
It was unclear to me from reading the docs how to enable MCP for the browser. Here are my findings on setting up automated browser interaction for visual testing.
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