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The Layered Cake of Claude Code

From the LLM to Your Project (and How to Hack Every Layer)

May 3, 202620 min read

Getting Started with Claude Code — And Why It's Not Just Another Cursor

I've been coding for 14+ years. I've used many IDEs, every AI tool (Devin to Qoder, Lovable,. ), every "next big thing." When I switched to Claude Code, it felt different. Not "oh cool, another copilo

Mar 25, 202610 min read

I Built a Self-Measuring Hook System for Claude Code — Here's What 427+ Automated Runs Taught Me

Most people using AI coding agents treat them like a magic autocomplete. Type a prompt, get code, ship it. I did that too. Then things started breaking in weird ways — production code without tests, f

Mar 20, 202610 min read

MongoDB ObjectID: anatomy of a distributed identifier

MongoDB's default ObjectID exists because distributed databases cannot afford the coordination cost of sequential integers. Rather than relying on a single authority to hand out the next number — a bo

Mar 4, 20269 min read