Making Ideas To Impact
I get 47 tech newsletters a day. I read 3 of them. The other 44 are read by an AI that scores each one against a 4-line prompt and only surfaces what is relevant to me. This is not a productivity hack. This is a Saturday afternoon project that took 200 lines of Python and … Read more
Why I Stopped Optimizing My AI Agent and Started Shipping It Your AI Agent Is Bleeding Money — here’s how to fix it before it costs you more. In the first quarter of this year, I spent 90 days tuning an AI agent. I rewrote its prompt three times. Changed the memory backend twice. Added … Read more
How I Built a $0/Month Blog Stack From My Home Lab I opened my Cloudflare billing page last week. The number at the bottom was $0.00. Not “we will charge you on the 30th” zero. Actual zero. My blog served 50,000 sessions in the previous month. 1.2 TB of traffic. Two cron jobs a day. … Read more
The 3 Bash Aliases That Saved Me 10 Hours Last Week If you like terminal productivity hacks, you might also enjoy my PostgreSQL admin tool stack and how to resize an Ubuntu VM disk using similar command-line techniques. I added three aliases to my .bashrc last Tuesday. By Friday, my shell history said I had … Read more
GPT-5.5 on AWS Bedrock — What AI Builders Need to Know OpenAI just made a move that changes the AI infrastructure landscape: GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now available on Amazon Bedrock. This is the first time OpenAI models are natively available inside AWS. No proxy, no separate API key, no cross-cloud latency. If you … Read more
How My AI Agent Almost Broke the ERP Database A few weeks ago, my AI junior dev agent did something that made my stomach drop. How to tame rogue AI agent processes before they eat your server It was fixing a bug in the inventory module — a simple off-by-one error in a stock calculation … Read more