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Technical insights on Optimizely CMS, Commerce, and the modern .NET ecosystem.
Cursor Cloud Agents Explained: My Machines, Self-Hosted Pool, and How It All Works
Cursor quietly shipped one of its most significant infrastructure updates in March 2026: Cloud Agents. The feature itself is not entirely new — the concept of background agents running in isolat...
Cursor Cloud Agents: When Your AI Teammate Starts Filing Its Own PRs
The ceiling nobody talks about Local agents are fast to start. You open Cursor, describe the task, and the agent starts editing files. Feels like a superpower — until you try to run two agents at ...
How AI Can Make Logging Timesheets Actually Easy
If you've ever had to log timesheets at the end of a long workday, you know the feeling: you stare at a form, trying to remember exactly what you worked on, for how long, and under which project c...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does — and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...
Get Shit Done: A Solo Developer's Guide to Shipping Faster with GSD and Claude Code
If you're a solo developer who codes with AI — you've probably hit this wall. You open Claude Code, start describing your feature, write some code, ask for fixes, write more code… and somewhere a...
Modernizing Enterprise Auth: Integrating Azure AD SSO into Legacy Systems
In the evolving landscape of enterprise software, managing identity is often the most significant friction point for both developers and end-users. At a mid-sized tech firm—let's call it TechFlow S...
How I Used AI to Build Ginbok.com — From Idea to Production in My Spare Time
Ginbok.com started as a side project I spun up in my spare time — a personal blog powered by Optimizely CMS 12 on the backend and Next.js 14 on the frontend. What made this build different from my...
AI Token Cost Allocation in Outsourcing: A Proposed Framework for Tracking LLM Spend Across CWOs
The New Line Item Nobody Budgeted For Two years ago, AI tooling was an experiment. Today, it's infrastructure. Developers at software outsourcing companies are using Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Clau...
How We Wired an E-Commerce Platform to SAP (and What We Learned the Hard Way)
The Problem Statement If you've ever worked on an e-commerce platform that needs to talk to SAP, you already know the fun: two worlds with completely different ideas about data, timing, and what co...
Outcome-Based Pricing in the Age of AI: Promise, Problems, and the Hybrid Reality
The Shift Nobody Planned For For decades, software pricing followed a simple logic: count the seats, multiply by a monthly fee, collect recurring revenue. It worked because the cost of delivering s...