How Much Review Is Too Much Review?
A human reviewer ends: they read the diff, satisfy themselves the change is safe, and ship it. An AI told to 'find issues' never reaches that point — finding is the goal, so it …
Developer-Tools
Apple's Device Mockups Are All the Wrong Size
Apple's official device design assets each render at their device's native screen resolution, so an iPhone PNG stands as tall as a MacBook and nothing lines up when you composite …
Two Gates Guard Unattended macOS UI Tests
Getting XCUITest to run unattended on a headless Mac mini looked like one permission problem. It was two: TCC privacy grants needed an MDM-delivered PPPC profile, while Automation …
Your Smartest AI Is a Lousy Junior Engineer
I used to treat model choice like a volume knob: always turn it up, always use the smartest model. Hundreds of hours of agentic coding later, I've learned the strongest model is …
Catching Twilio SMS Locally: MessagePit Extends Mailpit
Mailpit solved local email testing years ago. SMS testing never got the same treatment — most teams either disable SMS in dev or eat the Twilio bill. MessagePit is a fork of Ralph …
Bring Your Own Key: Why Customers Are Tired of Paying Twice for AI
As AI features proliferate across SaaS products, customers are waking up to a frustrating reality: they're paying for the same AI capabilities multiple times. The Bring Your Own …
Finding Each AI's Place in My Workflow
Explore how different AI tools are finding their unique niches in modern development workflows. From Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot CLI for terminal-based coding tasks, to …