I use AI coding agents every day. I believe they are reshaping how we build software, and I think the teams that adopt them deliberately will outperform those that don't. I am not writing this to warn you away from AI-assisted development. I am writing this because the loudest voices in the AI enthusiasm camp are also the most allergic to discussing what can go wrong. And that worries me more than
Manifest V3 Is Here — And It Broke Everything Google's Manifest V3 migration deadline has come and gone. After migrating 17 Chrome extensions from MV2 to MV3, I've compiled every pitfall, workaround, and lesson learned. If you're still migrating — or building new extensions — this guide will save you weeks of debugging. The problem: MV3 replaces persistent background pages with service workers.
المشكلة لو بتكتب عربي وإنجليزي مع بعض في أي موقع، البراوزر بيتلخبط في الاتجاه: جملة زي "مرحبا API بتاعك كويس" — كلمة API بتتعكس وتتقرأ غلط بسبب الـ Unicode Bidi Algorithm. المشكلة دي مش في موقع معين — هي موجودة في كل المواقع. حتى Claude.ai وChatGPT نفسهم بيعانوا منها. بدل ما نضبط dir="rtl" على الـ element بس، عملت BiDi parser حقيقي يقسّم النص: "مرحبا API tools بتاعك" ↓ tokenizer [arabic]
On Second Thought — Episode 06 The ORM hides the SQL. The cache hides the ORM. The service mesh hides the services. The operator hides the YAML, which already hid the kubelet, which already hid the container, which already hid the process. By Tuesday, nobody quite remembers what the original problem was. They are too busy configuring its sixth wrapper. This is the post about that wrapper. When som
Every team experiences incidents. The teams that grow stronger from them are the ones that take postmortems seriously — not as blame sessions, but as structured learning opportunities. Yet most postmortems end up as a wall of text nobody reads twice, filed away and forgotten until the same incident happens again six months later. This guide walks you through writing postmortems that genuinely chan