I Built a Minecraft Mod Where Every Sword is an AWS Service — Here's How We Coded It with AI What happens when a cloud engineer picks up Minecraft modding for the first time? You get swords that invoke Lambda functions, store items in S3 buckets, and auto-scale damage like EC2 instances. Today we're going deep into how I built AWS Swords — a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 where every weapon is
The 800 Million Weekly ChatGPT Users Who Are Just Getting Started Here's something that should excite everyone: ChatGPT just hit 800 million weekly active users. That's one in ten humans on Earth. Adoption faster than the world wide web. 18 billion messages every single week. And the really wild part: we haven't even scratched the surface of what's possible. OpenAI's latest research shows that ~
I finished an English series on the way I think ordinary people can start using AI for real work. The point is not to become an AI expert first. The point is to have one place where you can say what you want, give the tool access to the right folder, and check the result. Anything important still needs a human pause: publishing, deleting, paying, or authorizing. My preferred starting point is simp
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and APIs. Governed by the Linux Foundation since early 2025 and adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Vercel, MCP is the USB-C port of the AI ecosystem — one protocol that lets any LLM application talk to any tool server. But there's a gap between reading the spec and building somethi
When I started auto-publishing YouTube videos from GitHub Actions, the default thumbnails were whatever frame YouTube chose to freeze on. Usually a half-rendered slide or a moment of black. They looked unprofessional enough that I fixed it before worrying about anything else. The result is thumbnail.sh — 51 lines of bash that run as step 4a in my publish pipeline, generate a 1280×720 JPEG from the
If you have spent any real time with Claude Code, you have probably noticed the same problem I did. You write the same instructions in the prompt every other day. "Use four-space indentation here." "Always run the linter after edits." "Format commit messages this way." After the third or fourth repeat, it stops feeling like a prompt and starts feeling like missing config. Skills are how Claude Cod
The Chronova dashboard — real-time coding analytics with offline support. I've been writing code for over 15 years. Full-stack developer from Düsseldorf, Germany. Recently founded NX Solutions, a tiny software company, specifically to build and ship one thing: Chronova. It started because I was frustrated. I wanted to understand how I actually spend my coding time — not just "I coded for 6 hours t
I'm a software engineer and musician, and I got tired of every metronome app out there feeling like it was designed in 2005. So I built my own. Yames (Yet Another Metronome Everyone Skips) is a free, open-source desktop metronome built with Rust and Tauri. Sub-millisecond timing precision, 10+ handcrafted themes, and it's designed to get out of your way so you can focus on practice. I'm looking fo