Practical habits and patterns that keep your token usage lean when working with AI coding agents, whether you use Claude Code or GitHub Copilot with Codex.

How to Reduce Token Consumption with Claude Code and Codex

Anthropic just released an official Telegram plugin for Claude Code. Here's how it works and why it changes how I interact with my AI agent.

Claude's New Telegram Plugin: Talking to Your AI Agent on the Go

Added Glossary section with definitions and MDN links for LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, FID, and TTFB.

How I used the Chrome DevTools MCP to trace, diagnose, and fix real performance issues on my photo gallery page — without touching Lighthouse manually.

Performance Tracing with Chrome DevTools MCP and The AI Agent

Fix typos and grammar errors throughout the post.

A practical walkthrough of using Spec Kit to apply Spec-Driven Development inside an existing Next.js project

Spec-Driven Development in Practice: A Walkthrough with Spec Kit

A look at how the industry is moving from rapid, conversational AI coding to structured, specification-first development and the tools driving that shift.

The Shift from Vibe Coding to Spec-Driven Development

How I improved Lighthouse performance on image-heavy blog posts using staged optimizations: lazy loading, WebP conversion, and LCP/CLS tuning.

Improving Lighthouse Performance with Image Optimization

Trimmed the 'Adjusting on the Fly' section to remove a verbose paragraph about next-mdx-remote vulnerabilities, cleaned up the comparison table, and added the OG/hero image.

Added coverage of the post-publish npm audit suprise — 21 HIGH severity vulnerabilities from next-mdx-remote v4 and a minimatch ReDoS — integrated into the main narrative rather than a separate postscript.

Fixed typos throughout, added the ArticleNote disclosure that the post was AI-generated, and restructured several paragraphs in the Results and What I Learned sections for clarity.

What it took to go from Next.js 9.5, 136 vulnerabilities, and an abandoned MDX plugin to a fully modern stack with zero vulnerabilities — using AI-assisted development.

Upgrading a 4-Year-Old Next.js Blog with AI

After a year with Java, I returned to Rails — and rediscovered how joyful and elegant it can be, thanks to gems like meta-tags.

Rediscovering the Joy of Rails with meta-tags Gem

A simple Flask API example that sends messages to Discord channels using webhooks—great for alerts, bots, or automation scripts.

Using Flask API To Relay Messages to Discord Channels

Learn how to use Python's built-in doctest module to write tests inside your docstrings—great for simple validation and better documentation.

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