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Vibe coding turns hobbies into products
I found a “guess the song” app today. 50 songs. Simple interface. Still in progress. But it works. And it’s fun. Here’s what it reminded me: The builder didn’t wait for 10,000 songs.Didn’t wait for perfect UI.Didn’t wait for investor meetings. They shipped with 50. 50 is enough for a group of friends.50 is enough…
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How I Added AI-Powered Content Creation to My WordPress Blog with MCP
I just added a pretty cool feature to my blog: the ability to create posts by chatting with Claude AI. Here’s how I did it, explained in plain English—including all the mistakes I made along the way. 📦 Full source code available: github.com/laxmariappan/claude2blog What is MCP? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a way for AI…
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Being Early Isn’t Everything. But It’s Almost Everything.
Why ChatGPT dominates AI developer tools with 81.7% adoption. A breakdown of first mover advantage from the 2025 Stack Overflow survey data.
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The Real AI Challenge is Not Code. It’s the Human Reaction.
Dharmesh, who built dadjoke.ai just showed us something important about the future of computers. For a long time, we were amazed by AI. It won at chess. It wrote complex software. It explained tough ideas simply. But ask it to write a simple, original dad joke? It failed. Every single time. Why does a joke…
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We Don’t Hoard Information. We Collect Possibilities.
Ever caught yourself building a mountain of “I’ll read it later” bookmarks? You’re not alone. Let me tell you something. I used to save every PDF, every resource, every tutorial I found. My folders had folders. My bookmarks needed their own search engine. Now we have AI tools everywhere. The habit? Still here. Just wearing…
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Google Had the Browser. They Missed the Agent.
Think about Chrome for a second. Three billion users. Already installed. Already trusted. People spend their entire workday inside it. Gmail is open in one tab. Calendar in another. Docs, Sheets, Drive. Maybe YouTube Music playing in the background. All Google. All connected. All logged in. Now imagine if Chrome itself became your assistant. Not…
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Wanderlog: Travel Planning Made Simple
Planning your next adventure? I stumbled upon Wanderlog recently. Nothing fancy. No bells and whistles. Just a simple tool that does what it promises. You type in a city name. It suggests places to visit. You pick what you like. You remove what you don’t. Your itinerary builds itself. The AI suggestions surprised me. They…
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One Block at a Time: Why Telex Matters
I gave Telex a try yesterday. Built three different blocks. Two failed. One worked perfectly. The failures? External APIs broke it. Frontend forms made it freeze. The simple block sailed through without issues. But here’s what I loved most. The progress updates kept me hooked. Words like “coding, architecting, crafting, manifesting, designing, weaving” appeared on…
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When Writing PRDs Feels Like Climbing a Mountain
I’m a developer. Writing Product Requirements Documents? That’s not my thing. Until I found ChatPRD This tool does something simple. It takes your messy ideas and turns them into proper PRDs. The kind that make sense. The kind you can actually use. Here’s what I do now: No more staring at blank documents. No more…