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Building Clickfolio — A Full-Stack App on Cloudflare Workers
How I built an AI-powered portfolio generator using Workers, D1, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, and WebSockets.
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The best posts if you want to understand how I think about systems, product tradeoffs, and shipping real software.
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LogWell — Building a Self-Hosted Logging Platform
Real-time log streaming, OTLP-compatible ingestion, and PostgreSQL full-text search — without running a giant observability stack.
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Scaling a Telegram Bot to 300K+ Users
Lessons from building and scaling Alita Robot, a community automation bot used by large public Telegram groups.
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AI Models Compared: 2026 Edition
A practical comparison of current AI models — what's good, what's not, and what I'd actually use for real work. Last updated April 2026.
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I Built a Full-Stack AI App on Cloudflare Workers With D1, Durable Objects, and Queues — Here's What Actually Worked
Upload a PDF resume, get a live web portfolio. I built clickfolio.me entirely on Cloudflare's edge stack, D1 for data, R2 for files, Queues for async processing, Durable Objects for real-time WebSockets, and Gemini for AI parsing. Here's every technical decision, including the ones I regret.
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How I Scaled a Telegram Bot to 300k+ Users (Including the Tactics I'm Not Proud Of)
I built an open-source Telegram bot that grew to 300k+ real users, 200+ GitHub stars, and 300+ forks. Here's the brutally honest story of how—including the tactics I'm not proud of.
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I Needed Logs, Not a PhD in Elasticsearch — So I Built Logwell
Every logging tool felt like overkill—ELK's operational complexity, Datadog's pricing, Loki's LogQL learning curve. So I built Logwell: one Docker Compose, PostgreSQL-native, real-time streaming. Here's what I learned.
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AI Models Compared 2026: I Tested All Ten Flagships So You Don't Have To
Ten flagship AI models. Five months of daily use. One spreadsheet of benchmarks. Here's the honest breakdown — and the winner wasn't what I expected.
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I Gave OpenClaw 2 Weeks to Become My Jarvis. Here's Why It Matters Anyway.
180K+ GitHub stars. Security researchers panicking. $10-25/day in API costs. I spent 2 weeks with OpenClaw trying to find the killer use case. The product isn't ready — but the paradigm it's building might define the next decade of AI.
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Vibe Coding in 2026: The Truth About AI-Generated Code Nobody Wants to Hear
Everyone's talking about vibe coding like it's the future. After building a prototype in hours and then drowning in an unmaintainable mess, here's what the hype gets wrong.
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The Developer's Authenticity Paradox: Why Success Feels Like Performance
The authenticity paradox explained: why your online persona diverges from your real self. Psychology research + my experience with 500k users and daily metrics obsession.
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I Spent $600 Testing AI Coding Tools: Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot (2026 Results)
I've spent $50+/month on AI coding tools for a year. Here's what actually works, what's overhyped, and when to use each tool (including free local LLMs).
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My 2025 Stack for Shipping 30+ Side Projects While Getting My Master's
How I shipped 30+ projects while getting my MS in Computer Science at ASU. The stack choices that let me build fast, deploy faster, and actually sleep at night. Real lessons from PickMyClass, Alita Robot, and projects serving 250K+ users.
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How I Host My Portfolio for $0/Month on Cloudflare (And Why I Left Vercel)
Zero hosting costs, global edge deployment, and sub-50ms response times. Here's how I run divkix.me on Cloudflare Workers with Next.js 15 and why you should consider ditching Vercel.
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Running AI on My Mac: Why I Ditched ChatGPT for LM Studio (And Saved $240/Year)
How I run powerful AI models locally on my M4 Pro MacBook with LM Studio. Privacy, speed, and vision models that can see images - all offline.
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PickMyClass: Never Miss Your Dream Class Again
How I built a class notification system that watches for open seats and instructor updates, so students never miss their dream classes due to constant refreshing.