Build Your Own Claude Code Marketplace: Scaffold, Structure, and Auto-Updates
TL;DR: A Claude Code marketplace is a GitHub repo with a specific folder structure. You create...
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I tried to break my own MCP prompt-injection detector. One class of attack walks straight through - and it isn't a bug.
I maintain bulwark-mcp, a small open-source proxy that sits between an MCP client (Claude Desktop,...
Make.com has an MCP endpoint now. The auth token goes in the URL — and 3 other walls the docs skip
I already let my AI agent read and repair my self-hosted n8n workflows. So when a client's Make.com...
[NEW] I spent 3 months teaching AI agents my codebase. They forgot by morning. Every. Single. Day.
Every morning for three months, the first thing I did was re-explain myself to my own tools. Not the...
Gates Earned From Failure: a cost test for agent guardrails
Every guardrail in my agent-built project was earned from a real failure, not designed up front. A...
Why deemed-export law breaks frontier model APIs
So you built your stack on a hosted frontier model. Good throughput, clean API, your foreign-national...
I Run 5M Vectors on a $6/mo Server. Pinecone Would Charge Me $210.
Six months ago I moved my RAG pipeline from Pinecone to self-hosted Qdrant. My vector search bill...
The Stripe vs Paddle Break-Even Point Most SaaS Founders Get Wrong
"Stripe is 2.9%. Paddle is 5%. Stripe is cheaper. End of discussion." I hear this all the time. And...
How I Built a Read-Only SQLite MCP Server in Python (and Why Read-Only Matters)
Giving an LLM a database connection is one of those ideas that sounds great in a demo and terrifying...
AIchain Pool: Parallel Calls Instead of Sequential
You have 50 documents and you're running them through an LLM in a loop. The first one finishes at the...
My safety guard protected 2 tools and trusted the other 20
I maintain an MCP server that lets a coding agent drive your real, logged-in Safari — the same...
Build a Local RAG AI App with Ollama, Mistral, and Node.js
Most people start using Large Language Models by asking questions directly: Question -> LLM...
I Built a Backend Platform with Flat Pricing While Working Night Shifts in an ER
The Problem Every backend-as-a-service platform bills you on usage. More rows, more...
Everyone Wants AI Agents: So Why Are They So Damn Hard to Build?
Over the past year, AI agents have gone from research experiments to one of the hottest topics in...
Two Terminals, One Screen: Building an Agent Cockpit That Tells the Truth About Cost
How I unified the Claude Code and Codex CLIs behind one local cockpit, and why the spend view refuses to fabricate a dollar figure it cannot measure.
Why Your AI Code Reviewer Keeps Missing Bugs (And What Actually Works)
You've probably noticed it by now. You throw a hairy piece of code at Claude or ChatGPT for review,...
Structured Output From Local LLMs: JSON That Never Breaks (Ollama + Zod)
A 1.5B model running on your laptop will return JSON that almost parses. The closing brace is...
I Let AI Write My Backend Code for a Week — Here's What Actually Broke
I told myself it would be fine. I had been using AI coding assistants for suggestions and...
I Was Spending €50/Month on AI APIs — Now It's €5. Here's the Real Math.
I Was Spending €50/Month on AI APIs — Now It's €5. Here's the Real Math. Spoiler: the most...
I built Reclaim: an AI tool that finds medical billing errors and writes your appeal letters
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, and 80% of medical bills contain errors — duplicate...
How I stopped fighting AI API chaos with a simple proxy
I recently took on a side project that needed to tap into multiple AI models – GPT-4 for complex...
Claude just passed ChatGPT in US business spend — and Claude Code agents start billing separately
Claude just passed ChatGPT in US business spend — and Claude Code agents start billing...
Running Claude Code as an operations system: field notes
Most people meet Claude Code as a coding assistant: open a repo, ask it to fix a bug, review the...
Cutting AI Text-to-Speech API Costs: My 2026 Analysis
Honestly, cutting AI Text-to-Speech API Costs: My 2026 Analysis I spent the last six months...