Ideas in code. Stories from the workbench.

Claude Fable 5: A Clear-Eyed Look at Anthropic's New Flagship Model

A balanced, hands-on look at Claude Fable 5: how Anthropic's new flagship compares to Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 on price, context, and capabilities, and when the 2x premium is and is not worth paying.

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How to Secure AI Agents Against Prompt Injection and Tool Abuse

A defensive engineering playbook for AI agents understand direct and indirect prompt injection, then lock agents down with least privilege, human-in-the-loop gates, sandboxing, validation

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5 days ago 140

MCP Explained Without Hype: How AI Tools Connect to Apps and Data

A plain-English technical guide to the Model Context Protocol, the problem it solves, hosts/clients/servers, tools vs resources vs prompts, transports, a minimal server, and when to adopt it.

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6 days ago 86

Ubuntu Linux DevOps

Ubuntu 26.04 vs 24.04 LTS: Should Developers Upgrade Now or Wait?

A practical decision framework for the Ubuntu 26.04 vs 24.04 LTS question the real differences for developers, who should upgrade now, who should wait, and a safe upgrade path either way.

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1 week ago 115

Ubuntu Linux DevOps

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Server Setup for Developers: What Changed and What to Watch

A developer-focused setup guide for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS servers a hardened baseline (SSH, firewall, unattended-upgrades), the kernel/runtime changes to watch versus 24.04, and a pre-migration checklist.

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AI Agents in 2026: What Developers Actually Need to Know

A hype-free developer guide to AI agents in 2026 to the agent loop, tools, memory, MCP, evaluation, guardrails, and the cost and failure modes that separate a demo from production.

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1 week ago 86

Laravel PHP Programming

Multi-Tenant SaaS with Laravel 12: A Production Architecture Guide

A practical, opinionated architecture for multi-tenant SaaS on Laravel 12 — schema, subdomain routing, tenant-aware queues, Cashier billing, and the leak tests that keep you out of the news.

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2 weeks ago 61

Mobile API Authentication with Laravel 12 Sanctum and React Native: A Production Guide

Production-grade mobile auth for Laravel 12 APIs and React Native, Sanctum tokens with abilities, Keychain storage, biometric gating, refresh-on-launch, and remote session revocation.

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2 weeks ago 102

Laravel PHP Programming

Scaling Laravel 12 with Octane and FrankenPHP: A Production Performance Guide

Cut Laravel 12 latency by more than half with Octane and FrankenPHP — install, configure, audit singletons, and benchmark, with the production gotchas that bite teams in week two.

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Featured series Complete · 8 parts

Build an MCP Server in Python

An 8-part hands-on track that takes you from the raw MCP protocol to a tested, secured, deployed server that Claude and other agents can actually use.

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Build Production LLM Apps with Python & FastAPI

A hands-on, 12-part track that builds from modern Python through FastAPI and into production LLM features, with runnable code in every part.

Journal ✍️

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The Weight of Arrogance and the Peace of Distance

Humility protects the heart from becoming what arrogance destroys.

1 month ago 260

Live to the Fullest in a World of Chaos

Live to the full in a distressed world. Find meaning in the small things, reflect on gratitude, work stress, faith, and everyday life and its beauty.

1 month ago 288

When the Heart Feels Heavy: Trusting What the Soul Can Bear ?

Sometimes I find myself asking a quiet, lingering question: how much can a soul truly bear? It is not always the loud, visible hardships that weigh the most.

1 month ago 330

The Two-Faced Among Us: How to Identify Narcissism and Keep your Peace.

Others may present a mask of goodness to others when in the streets yet display a completely different persona when at home. This article will discuss the psychology of two-faced behaviour.

2 months ago 219

For the Sake of God: When Giving Becomes Worship

A reflection on purifying our intentions in giving. When we help others, is it for recognition or truly for God ( Allah ) ? This post explores moving from transactional acts to sincere worship.

2 months ago 220

Relying on people more than the creator: A Personal Reflection

A personal story about the pain of misplaced trust in people and the profound peace found in relying more on God. A lesson in balancing human connection with divine dependence.

Book Reviews 📚

Books I've read & reviewed

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6 days ago 59

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

A short, sharp book that argues meaning is the thing worth organising your life around. Forged in the worst conditions imaginable, written with the gentleness of a clinician.

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The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

A pair of Japanese writers translate Adlerian psychology into a long, patient dialogue. The most quietly liberating book I read this year.

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Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

A loud, raw, sometimes uncomfortable memoir about pain as a tool. I needed to read it. I do not need to reread it.

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3 weeks ago 119

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

A short, dense distillation of Naval's thinking on wealth, happiness, and judgement. The kind of book you keep within arm's reach.

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1 month ago 127

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

Old-fashioned personal finance wrapped in ancient Babylonian parables. Dated in tone, evergreen in substance. Still the simplest money book I would hand to a teenager.

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