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Learn From Claude Code: Agent Spawning

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's agent spawning by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: App State Machine

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's App State by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: MCP Integration

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Anthropic invented MCP a year ago. Now they're experimenting with skill-ifying it. Here's what the leaked source reveals about the pivot.

Learn From Claude Code: Memory

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's memory system by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: Multi-Agent Coordination

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's multi-agent coordination by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: Permission System

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's permission system by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: Query Engine

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's query engine by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: Tool System

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's tool system by inspecting its leaked source code.

Learn From Claude Code: Context Compaction

by a Developer

Apr 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Learning Claude Code's context compaction by inspecting its leaked source code.

Understand Openclaw by Building One - Part 1

by a Developer

Mar 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

tutorial

A comprehensive guide to building an AI agent with tools, skills, and memory - everything you need before going to production

Understand Openclaw by Building One - Part 2

by a Developer

Mar 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

infrastructure

Event-driven architecture, multi-agent orchestration, scheduling, and memory systems - everything you need to run agents at scale.

Beyond the Buzzwords: Context, Prompts, and Tools

by a Developer

Jan 2026

by a Developer

agent

ai

Stop memorizing new terminology every time a new tool launches. Understand how agents manage context, use prompts, and call tools, and everything else starts making sense.

Convincing Myself to "Vibe Code"

by a Developer

Dec 2025

by a Developer

ai

machine-learning

To vibe or not to vibe, that's the question. Draw the line between throwaway AI vibe coded prototypes and sustainable software engineering without losing your edge.

Fear of Doing Nothing

by a Human Being

Nov 2025

by a Human Being

life

Productivity as avoidance. Fear of stillness. An unintentional break revealed my distorted pace of living.

What My Cat Taught Me About Faith?

by a Christian

Sep 2025

by a Christian

faith

A reflection drawing parallels between the our relationship our my cat and our relationship with God.

Code like an Onion: The Decorator Pattern

by a Developer

Jul 2025

by a Developer

design-pattern

python

An introduction to the Decorator Design Pattern, which helps manage cross-cutting concerns by wrapping your core functionality like an onion🧅.

The CSS Odyssey: Why I Turned back to CSS After Trying Everything Else

by a Developer

Jun 2025

by a Developer

css

react

web-dev

A developer's CSS journey: from vanilla to CSS-in-JS to Tailwind and back to CSS, with hard-earned lessons along the way.

5 WTF Moments in Python

by a Developer

May 2025

by a Developer

python

This isn't another Python beginner guide or critique of Python's performance issues. Instead, the blog walks through five surprising behaviors in Python that have bitten me in the past, knowing these might save you hours of debugging.

Single Source of Truth: Cross-Component Styling with React Compound Pattern

by a Developer

Apr 2025

by a Developer

design-pattern

react

web-dev

Cross-component styling is more than often in real world application. The blog explores a context-aware styling solutions in React applications, leveraging the Compound Pattern.

Breaking Down React Components: From Monolithic to Compound Pattern

by a Developer

Apr 2025

by a Developer

design-pattern

react

web-dev

Struggling with monolithic React components? Break it into small pieces and embrace the compound pattern to achieve intuitive composition and unlimited customization.

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