AI is a feature, not a product

I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably.

Disclaimer: this is a rushed angry rant with F-bombs all over. I had a rough day alright. If explicit language is an issue, please skip the read.

Also for context - I'm a heavy AI user and my productivity has genuinely gone up 10x thanks to these tools. But fuuuuuuu....

So Cursor 2.0 is out huh

Cursor 2.0 is out. Is that it? A new model and the UI I don't care to use?

Don't Just Ban IPs - Send the Damn Abuse Report

I just finished dealing with a Digital Ocean IP address that sent half-a-million requests to our network and this got me thinking...

Remember when we used to send abuse reports? You'd spot some shady traffic - and fire off an email to the host. Fast, easy, and effective.

Now? Nobody does it. We just shrug and block.

Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

Everyone worries about AI taking developer jobs, but what if AI wipes out the entire off-the-shelf software industry?

TL;DR

1. The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever.

2. The discovery problem. AI recommendations default to well-established solutions. Think SEO is a long game? Try LLM SEO.

Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari

I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing nonsense — things I have to disable again and again. No thanks.

No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior"

I mean, it is!

But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3 and R1 is a fine example of the knee-jerk nature of mass consciousness in the era of clickbait economics.

I'm finally dumping Visual Studio

I've been a C# developer for 20 years and I've had enough. After two decades of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I'm effing fed up. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code which I only used occasionally until now. While I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm willing to give it a shot — and so far, I'm really impressed.

Please stop using Any() for C# Lists and Arrays

When it comes to performance in C#, even small inefficiencies can add up in large codebases. One common example is the use of the LINQ method .Any() on arrays and lists instead of directly checking .Length or .Count. While .Any() improves readability in some contexts, it introduces measurable overhead when used with collections that already expose a count property.

Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide

Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way to do this. They probably want you to upgrade to Nginx Plus for such "advanced" features. But fear not! There's a DIY workaround that's both effective and satisfyingly rebellious.