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How to actually live in an Obsidian vault

May 5, 202615 min read

Capture cheaply, link liberally, crystallize manually — the working loop that turns an Obsidian vault from a graveyard into a queryable archive of your own thinking.

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Harness Engineering: The Discipline After the Hype

April 9, 202616 min read

"It feels faster" isn't a metric. "The vibes are good" doesn't pass an audit. Here's how to actually prove your AI-assisted workflow is working — with numbers, not feelings.

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Your AI Just Introduced a CVE And Nobody Noticed

April 9, 202616 min read

An AI wrote 200 lines of auth code in 45 seconds. Three weeks later, the security audit found a deprecated library, a race condition, and tokens stored in localStorage...

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The Tools Behind Every AI Workflow That Actually Works

April 8, 202617 min read

OpenSpec, Spec-Kit, BMAD, Superpowers — the framework landscape is exploding. I've used them all across real projects. Here's which one actually deserves your time, based on how you work.

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Context Engineering Is a Team Sport

April 8, 202617 min read

Ask your PM and your lead dev to describe the sprint goals. If you get two different answers, no amount of CLAUDE.md magic will save you. Context engineering is a team sport — here's how every role plays.