Insights
Notes on AI automation, web performance, and technical leadership. What I learn shipping real systems.
Aug 13, 20264 min readLatestAI Won't Invent a Language. It'll Grow One.
Mojo just hit 1.0 on top of MLIR, where every compilation step is machine-verified. That points at a two-world stack - and a governance question nobody is asking.
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Aug 13, 20264 min read84% of Developers Use AI. Only 3% Trust It.
Adoption is up, trust is down, and debugging takes longer. The top complaint is not that AI is wrong - it is that it is almost right. That gap is a process problem.
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Aug 13, 20264 min readYour Black Friday 2026 Is Decided in September
Black Friday 2026 is just over three months out and mostly already decided. BFCM 2025 ran at 4.2x normal traffic and $11.5B on Shopify alone — here is the boring playbook for surviving the next one.
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Aug 11, 20265 min readEvery AI Tool Builds the Same React App
v0, Lovable and Bolt all converge on React, Tailwind and shadcn/ui. Not because it is best, but because models are fluent in it. That has consequences.
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Aug 11, 20265 min readTypeScript Adoption in 2026: The Argument Is Over
40% of developers now write TypeScript exclusively and only 6% write plain JavaScript. The debate is settled. Here is what actually matters now.
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Aug 11, 20265 min readPut Your n8n Workflows in Git Before You Lose One
n8n's native source control is Enterprise-only. Here is the practical way to version control your workflows on any plan, and why you will wish you had.
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