A first-person, honest engineering guide to multi-agent fan-out with Claude Code — pipeline vs parallel, adversarial verification, worktree isolation, and when NOT to reach for it. From a solo dev who ran ~100-agent research swarms for real work.
EngineeringA proof-first course + cert map for 2026 skills. For each skill: the course to take, and the shipped repo that proves you can actually do it.
DevThe software skills that actually move the needle in the 2026 job and freelance market — and the specific courses, certs, and projects that prove you have them. To demonstrate skill X, do course Y, then ship project Z.
Dev 12 minWhere TypeScript types stop and runtime validation must start, why one schema should drive both, and a pattern that keeps client and server honest across the network boundary.
Dev 8 minA decision framework, not a benchmark war. When Astro's zero-JS default wins, when Next's app model earns its weight, and the one question that settles most arguments.
Dev 8 minThe Model Context Protocol in plain terms: what a server actually exposes, the transport choices that matter, and how to build one without over-engineering it.
Dev 7 minAfter six months of using Claude Code as my primary collaborator — not autocomplete, not a chatbot — here is what genuinely changed about how I build software.
Tech 10 minFrom LAMP to Kubernetes — the overengineered path. Every layer of the tech stack explained, from frontend to backend to APIs, and why you might not need half of it.
EngineeringAfter building the most over-engineered stack imaginable, we start over with a plain HTML file and end up with something that can ship to production in a day.
EngineeringThe definitive introduction to Microsoft PowerToys in 2026. What it is, how to install it via winget, what changed in v0.100.0, and how to configure it on first launch.
Tech 6 minThe final part of the series: the exact PowerToys configuration, shortcut map, and enabled utilities I recommend for every solo developer and power user on Windows in 2026.
Tech 6 minA deep dive into FancyZones: how to build custom window layouts, use the CLI, set layout hotkeys, and build a dedicated dev coding workspace on any monitor size.
Tech 7 minHow to replace your mouse with PowerToys Run and the Command Palette. Advanced search operators, plugin usage, and how to wire it into a mouseless developer workflow.
Tech 6 minA complete guide to PowerToys Keyboard Manager. System-wide key remapping, application-specific shortcuts, disabling useless keys, and building a power-user keyboard layout.
Tech 6 minHow to use PowerToys Workspaces to save and launch your entire dev environment in one click, and Awake to keep your laptop alive during long builds and deployments.
Tech 5 minThree PowerToys that transform how you capture, preview, and paste information: Text Extractor OCR, Peek file preview, and Advanced Paste with AI transformations.
Tech 6 minThree PowerToys that fix Windows Explorer's worst gaps: bulk image resizing, regex-powered batch renaming, and identifying which process is locking your files.
Tech 6 minThe four PowerToys utilities that every developer will reach for daily: managing env vars by profile, safe registry file preview, hosts file editing without admin CMD, and pixel-perfect color picking.
Tech 7 minThe PowerToys utilities that take control of your screen: finding your cursor on a 4K display, zooming and annotating for presentations, measuring UI pixel dimensions, and cropping live window thumbnails.
Tech 5 minHow oriz-omnipost reads RSS from any site in the chirag127/oriz family and pushes new entries to dev.to, Bluesky, Buttondown, Telegra.ph, WordPress, and Reddit — with idempotency keyed on the RSS guid.
EngineeringHow the chirag127/workspace coordinates eleven static sites, a shared design kit, and an Open Knowledge Format bundle that captures every architectural decision in plain markdown.
EngineeringThirteen orphan repos, one rejected AdSense application, and a decision to consolidate everything onto a single Astro 6 deploy on Cloudflare.
Engineering 7 minReal free-tier limits, the no-card-on-file rule, and why Cloudflare beats Vercel Hobby for an AdSense-monetized indie site.
Engineering 8 minMigrating from the legacy collections API to the Content Layer, modeling 1,864 book summary pages with one Zod schema, and why Astro.glob is gone.
Engineering 9 minWhat broke when I moved oriz.in from Tailwind 3.4 to 4.3: CSS-first @theme, the border-color regression, and what I threw out from my old config.
Engineering 8 minA complete guide to finding and safely deleting useless, dead, and duplicate files on Windows. Covers AI-powered tools, free visualizers like WizTree and WinDirStat, duplicate finders, Microsoft's built-in tools, developer junk cleanup, and a set of ready-to-run PowerShell scripts — so you can reclaim gigabytes in one afternoon.
TechA 5,000+ word definitive setup guide for power users, developers, and creators. We analyze the best open-source and closed-source software, compare local AI engines, outline deep customizers, and provide a single-command setup script.
TechWhy pnpm 10.34 is the right pin in 2026, the tarball integrity hard-fail, and workspace patterns for a one-app project that might grow.
Engineering 8 minPages was frozen in April 2025. Workers Static Assets is the path forward. The migration recipe, wrangler.toml details, and what 'static' actually means now.
Engineering 8 minWhat I did to keep oriz.in at Lighthouse 95+ mobile with AdSense scripts, fonts, and React 19 islands all loaded. Real numbers, real tactics.
Engineering 9 minLearn to build fast, modern JAMstack websites with Astro 6 in 2026. Complete guide covering setup, islands architecture, content collections, and deployment.
Engineering 15 minA comprehensive guide to deploying static websites on Cloudflare Pages covering hybrid static architecture, build optimization, custom domains, and zero-cost...
Engineering 14 minAdd authentication to static websites with Firebase Auth. Complete guide covering Google Sign-In, email/password, session management, and security rules.
Engineering 14 minLearn to build automated web scraping pipelines with GitHub Actions. Schedule scrapers, store data, handle errors, and deploy production scraping workflows.
Engineering 14 minUsing shadcn/ui copy-paste components in Astro 6 with React 19 islands. Why I rejected Park UI, DaisyUI, and Mantine, and how I picked 15 components instead of 50.
Engineering 8 minA comprehensive guide to building, hosting, and monetizing free public JSON APIs using GitHub repositories covering data management, versioning, rate limits,...
Engineering 12 minA deep dive into how I built this blog from scratch — the architecture decisions, tech stack, automation, and features that make it fast, free, and developer-friendly.
EngineeringA deep-dive analysis of the blog.oriz.in repository: architecture, component design, deployment automation, coding conventions, and lessons learned from building a production Astro blog.
EngineeringHow to build fast, free, client-side SPA using Astro's static output and React, deployable on Cloudflare Pages with zero server costs.
EngineeringHow I built Oriz.in — a platform with over 1000 free online tools using Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, and a microservices architecture.
EngineeringHow Cloudflare Workers changed the way I think about backend architecture, and why edge computing is the future.
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