Hi, I’m Lax Mariappan.
I am passionate about crafting robust web applications that are easy to use and maintain.
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Malcolm Gladwell Said 10,000 Hours. I Put It in a Markdown File.
Expertise used to take years to develop. Now it lives in a markdown file. That changes everything about how we build with AI.
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The World Is Loud. Here’s What I’m Doing.
The world feels loud right now. Global uncertainty. Economic pressure. AI changing everything faster than we can process. People anxious about what comes next. And most of us are just watching. Not because we don’t care. But because… what exactly can we do? I’m a developer. I sit at a desk. I write code. I’m…
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Things That Make Me Happy (An Ongoing List)
An ongoing list. Updated whenever I remember something. Kids. Not just my son Vian, though obviously him most of all. Kids in general. The way they look at the world like it’s brand new every single day. I don’t have to know them. I just have to see them. Something in me just… loosens. Bad…
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Some Blog Posts Make You Want to Blog About Them
A reflection on excellence, private project graveyards, and why “better than before” is the only standard worth building toward.
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Abilities Scout v1.2.0: Primitives-first scoring, MCP live, API-correct stubs
WordPress 6.9 shipped the Abilities API. Now the question is which parts of your plugin should use it. Not all of it. Not even most of it. The Abilities API is designed for atomic, composable units. Things AI agents can discover, call, and chain. The more focused the ability, the more useful it is. So…
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Laura – A content OS for developers and indie hackers
AI made writing faster. Idea to draft to publish. What used to take days now takes hours. But I kept losing track of everything. What was published? What was half-written? What was just an idea sitting in my notes? I tried spreadsheets. Too flat.I tried a private WordPress site. Too heavy.I almost built something from…
