You open Medium, find an interesting article, and start reading. Right in the middle, you hit a paywall telling you to subscribe. If you prefer not to pay five dollars a month for the rest, there is a ...

In this article I will explain how you can set DeepSeek as the default model for your Codex coding agent. By doing this, you no longer need to pay a flat monthly subscription. You only need to top up ...

Programming languages don’t dominate because of superior syntax; they win by absorbing migrating user groups from dying ecosystems. Historically, programming languages last 10 to 25 years before a ...

In the middle of working on a real estate data scraping project for one of my client, I caught myself thinking “Turning all these listings into a social media post I believe would take so much time” ...

Most examples make MCP feel like a separate service. You start with FastMCP, run it on its own port, then wire another deployment around it. For a demo, that is fine. For a real API, I do not want ...

For the last ten years, starting a new JavaScript backend meant typing npm install express without a second thought. It became pure industry muscle memory. In this article I will explain why relying ...

When clients hire me to build a custom API, the first thing we have to lock down is the tech stack. Because I work heavily in Python, the conversation almost always leads to the same question: Should ...

The term “REST API development” used to mean wiring up basic database actions in a bulky framework. If your startup needed an API, you spun up a monolith in Ruby on Rails or Django, added a generic ...

Your competitor’s product now appears inside ChatGPT. Your CTO says you need an “MCP server.” Three Slack threads this week mentioned it like you already know what it is. You googled it. You got ...

The web application development process is the sequence from a raw idea to a live product: discovery, stack choice, design, engineering, testing, deployment, then maintenance. Coding sits in the ...

Off-the-shelf SaaS tools handle standard administrative work well, but they often fail when a business operates on non-standard processes. When forced to fit proprietary workflows into rigid ...

Most people think design work is all creativity. They imagine concepting, experimenting, refining ideas, and crafting polished experiences. And yes, that is part of the job. But in many businesses, ...