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How I Decide a RAXXO Tool Needs a Redesign, Not a Patch

I track three signals before I touch a shipped RAXXO tool's core screens again A patch fixes one report, a redesign answers the same complaint from four different users in a month The kill switch buys me the room to redesign without breaking anyone mid session I never touch export formats or saved URLs during a redesign, only the screens around them The Line Between a Patch and a Redesign Every RAXXO tool gets bug reports. Most of them are patches. A button that does not resp

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Indexing Like a Jedi: How I Tamed My Database

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was building a tiny rate‑limiter for a side‑project API. The idea was simple: every request writes a row with user_id and requested_at (a timestamp) into a rate_limit_log table, and before allowing the request we count how many rows exist for that user in the last minute. If the count exceeds the limit we reject the request. At first it felt like a breeze. I threw together a quick migration, wrote the query, and hit “run”. The first few requests flew by—until t

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Separating the Idea, State, and Artifact Planes in Agent Pipelines

The agent worked. The architecture didn't. This failure mode won't show up in your eval suite. An AI architect builds a personal automation pipeline: an agent scouts trending content, pipes ideas into a chat thread, he reacts, things get logged. The agent did its job. It found the trends, wrote them down, and responded when he asked it to. He killed it anyway, and not over hallucination or token cost. He killed it because everything lived in "a flat scroll of messages. No structure, no views,

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An unlikely experiment

There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble around some of that codebase (even if you don't understand much) you might see an interesting pattern littered throughout: if (unlikely(condition_that_does_not_happen_much)) { // do thing } else { // do more common thing } What is this mysterious unlikely? Why do we need to tell the computer that something is unlikely, and what does that ev

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Officially: farewell to Linear, Jira, and Trello 🚀

It's a Plan - the open-source tracker where humans and AI agents share one board. Your server, your database, your model keys. AGPL-3.0, no seats, no lock-in. / itsaplan Open-source project management and issue tracking, with AI agents built in Self-hosted, open-source project management and issue tracking, and an alternative to Linear Plane, and Jira. The difference: AI agents work here like any teammate. Hand them issues, or run the whole thing over the REST API, webho

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I built an open API for Nigeria's 752 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education

If you've ever tried to find a clean, structured, up-to-date list of Nigerian tertiary institutions, you've probably run into the same wall I did: every result is a static blog post or a PDF from a few years ago, half of them contradict each other, and none of them are usable as data — just prose to be re-typed by hand. There wasn't an open API for this. So I built one. nigeria-tertiary-institutions-api is a free, open-source REST API and dataset covering every Nigerian university, polytechnic,

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Building a Community Wiki Around a Privacy-First Search Engine

The problem: a search engine needs more than a search box findnix.eu is a EU-based, privacy-first search engine — "Find alles, speichere nix" (find everything, store nothing) is the tagline. Once real users started using it, the support questions started too: how does the spam filter work, why isn't my site indexed yet, what data do you actually store, how do I report a fake shop I found in the results? Answering the same questions over email doesn't scale, and a single flat FAQ page doesn't e

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