Programming

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Programming•Feb 05, 2026•8 min read

Cutting My AI Image Bill by 92%: A Developer's Guide to Smart Image Generation

How I moved from spending a euro per blog post on Gemini 3 Pro to a hybrid Gemini 2.5 Flash + Replicate FLUX setup that costs almost nothing — without sacrificing quality where it matters.

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Programming•Feb 05, 2026•16 min read

12 SEO Sins in My Next.js Blog (And How I Fixed Every One)

I checked Google Search Console and the numbers were embarrassing. Broken hreflang, wasted crawl budget, a sitemap Google refused to read — here are the 12 SEO issues I found in my Next.js blog and how I fixed each one, explained for humans.

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Programming•Jan 30, 2026•9 min read

The Pragmatic Guide to AI-Assisted Coding: When to Trust, When to Supervise

A framework for using AI coding assistants in production software—synthesizing perspectives from Karpathy, Beck, Fowler, and others on where human oversight remains essential.

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Programming•Jan 22, 2025•5 min read

Reflecting on My Journey with a Custom Databricks Framework

Reflecting on my journey with a custom Databricks framework, including the challenges, learnings, and the impact it has had on my work.

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Programming•Dec 27, 2024•4 min read

Building with AI - My Experience with Cursor Composer

A wrap-up of my experience with Cursor Composer, a tool that helps me build with AI.

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