Developer Tools

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A terminal window showing a CLI tool with colorful output, progress bars, and structured help text

Building CLI Tools with TypeScript and Commander.js

Create professional command-line tools in TypeScript with Commander.js: argument parsing, interactive prompts, progress and structured output.

Aug 16, 2025·4 min read

A CI pipeline diagram where an LLM-powered agent analyzes a pull request diff and posts review comments

Artificial Intelligence

Building AI-Powered Code Review Assistants with LLM APIs

Build a code review assistant that hooks into CI, uses LLM APIs to scan pull requests for bugs, style and security issues, and comments on the PR.

Jul 31, 2025·4 min read

Productivity

A Productivity System That Scales With Your Career

A practical framework for a developer productivity system that grows with your responsibilities — IC through tech lead — without collapsing under itself.

Apr 4, 2025·4 min read

Knowledge graph visualization showing interconnected notes on programming concepts with bidirectional links forming clusters around architecture, testing, and performance topics

Productivity

A Personal Knowledge Management System for Developers

Design a sustainable knowledge workflow with Zettelkasten principles, progressive summarization and spaced repetition to retain and connect concepts.

Dec 7, 2023·4 min read

Automation pipeline showing developer tasks flowing through triggers, scripts, and notification hooks that replace manual repetitive work

Productivity

Building a Personal Automation Stack for Developer Workflows

Design a personal automation system that removes repetitive developer tasks with shell scripts, cron jobs, notification hooks and light orchestrators.

Sep 28, 2023·5 min read

Terminal output showing custom ESLint rule catching a team-specific code pattern violation with auto-fix suggestion

Engineering

Building a Custom ESLint Plugin

How to build custom ESLint rules for your team's conventions: AST selectors, rule testing, auto-fixers and publishing a shared plugin.

Dec 5, 2022·4 min read

Git history visualization showing a messy branch being cleaned up with interactive rebase into clean linear commits

Engineering

Mastering Git Rebase and Interactive Rebase

A practical guide to git rebase and interactive rebase: rebase versus merge, squashing commits, rewriting history safely and clean team workflows.

Nov 13, 2022·5 min read

AI-powered code review interface showing automated suggestions alongside human reviewer comments on a pull request

Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI for Code Review Automation

How to bring LLMs into code review: automated review bots, prompt patterns for catching bugs, security analysis, and where human judgment still wins.

Sep 25, 2022·5 min read

Flowchart showing manual repetitive tasks being replaced by automated scripts and tools

Productivity

Automating Repetitive Tasks as a Developer

Practical strategies for spotting and automating repetitive development work — shell scripts, code generators, Git aliases and scaffolding tools.

Jul 7, 2022·5 min read

Migration timeline showing JavaScript files progressively converting to TypeScript with strict mode stages

Tutorials

Migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript Incrementally

A step-by-step guide to migrating JavaScript projects to TypeScript without pausing feature work: configuration, strict mode adoption and team workflows.

Sep 27, 2021·4 min read