Force-Push Deleted 14 Engineers’ Work — The Git Safety System We Needed

One Git command. 14 engineers’ work: gone. $140K in development time: erased. And the guy who did it? Still works here. Here’s why. Continue reading o...

GDPR for Ecommerce: Customer Orders, Abandoned Carts, and Retargeting

Running an online shop means processing personal data at every stage of the customer journey — from the first page view to the final returns label. GD...

I Built a 3-Agent Pipeline That Turns My GitHub Activity Into Weekly Blog Posts on Notion + DEV.to

This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built Every Monday standup, someone asks: "What did you work on last week?" And every Monday,...

I Deleted 3 Weeks of Work With Git Rebase — The Recovery Guide

127 commits. Gone. 2:47 AM. One command I can’t undo. Or can I? Continue reading on Stackademic »

NPM Archaeology: 5 Years in the Ground, Still Breathing

Let me set the scene: It's a Saturday. Nothing particularly dramatic is happening. I'm just sitting there, scrolling through my old GitHub repos kinda...

How to send sensor data to a gateway using PainlessMesh in ESP8266?

Hello, I'm Ganesh. I'm building git-lrc , an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free, unlimited, and source-available on Github. Star U...

What Happened When I Replaced Copilot with Claude Code for 2 Weeks

GitHub Copilot costs $10/month, and I'd been using it for two years without thinking twice. But when Claude Code launched, I got curious. What if I ju...

7 Mac Apps Every Startup CTO Should Have in 2026

Being a startup CTO means wearing every hat — writing code, reviewing PRs, managing infrastructure, talking to customers, and somehow keeping your own...

How to Build an AI Agent in 2026: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide

How to Build an AI Agent in 2026: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide — Paxrel - [Paxrel](/) [Home](/) [Newsletter](/newsletter.html) [SaaS](https://app.pa...

How I Built a Self-Updater With GitHub Releases

I've been building PointArt — a PHP micro-framework modelled after Spring Boot's programming model. Attribute-based routing, dependency injection, an...

The API Surface Is the New Product. Revolut Just Proved It

Two engineers at Revolut X built a working trading system in 30 minutes. Not a prototype. A functional market-making operation handling inventory, quo...

AI Agent Guardrails: How to Keep Your Agent Safe and Reliable (2026 Guide)

An AI agent without guardrails is like a self-driving car without brakes. It might work fine 99% of the time, but that 1% can be catastrophic — sendin...

4 Useful Terminal Commands for Awkward Finder Tasks (Bite-size Article)

Introduction Today’s article is a short one, but I’d like to share four useful Terminal commands I recently learned for Finder-related tasks (Mac). Un...

ASP.NET Core REST API Best Practices: The 2026 Developer’s Guide

How I learned to build APIs that don’t break, don’t confuse, and don’t keep me up at night Continue reading on Medium »

I'm so sick of my editor telling me how great I am. Not that I'm not great.

Treating blog posts like production code

When I start a new project, I immediately set up a repository, linters, tests, git hooks, and CI. Not because I'm forced to, but because fast feedback...

My WhatsApp Bot Was Restarting Itself 7 Times a Day. Here's What Stopped It.

My AI agent has a WhatsApp connection. For three days, it fell into a restart loop — up to 7 times in a single day, intervals shrinking as the day wen...

If Nothing You Build As a Programmer Stands Out, Read This

The Last Guide You’ll Ever Need to Build Something That Actually Stands Out Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

The Day I Realized Most Developers Are Solving the Wrong Problems

It didn’t happen during a big incident. Continue reading on Medium »

You’ve Been Installing Software the Hard Way

Before I used Linux, I installed software the way most people do. You open a browser, search for the thing you want, find the official website, downlo...