AI's Real Superpower: Consuming, Not Creating

After connecting his personal knowledge vault to AI, Mike discovered performance issues always preceded tool complaints by 2 to 3 weeks in his one-on-ones, a pattern he'd never noticed before. He now solves problems faster by finding similar past situations, makes better decisions with forgotten context, and sees patterns invisible when scattered across time. Your experience is your competitive advantage, but only if you can access it.

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Optimizing Claude Code: Skills, Plugins, and the Art of Teaching Your AI to Code Like You

Transform Claude Code from a capable generalist into a specialized coding partner that knows your exact workflow. Through settings, skills, hooks, commands, and plugins, you can encode your team's conventions, enforce patterns automatically, and create workflow shortcuts that compound over time. The difference is like hiring someone who's worked at your company for years versus a talented newcomer.

By Steven Mays →

“You should never build a CMS”

Lee Robinson migrated Cursor.com from Sanity to markdown files using AI agents, spending $260 and removing 332K lines of code. While Sanity acknowledges valid criticisms about complexity and AI accessibility, they argue Lee actually rebuilt CMS features (asset management, version control, localization) across distributed tools. These features exist because the problems are real. The debate shouldn't be CMS versus no CMS, but whether your content infrastructure works for AI as both author and consumer.  

By Knut Melvær →

Why Changing Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio Isn't as Simple as It Seems

Visual Studio 2026 updates keyboard shortcuts, but it's not simple. The IDE supports multiple shortcuts per command, developer profiles that customize bindings, keyboard schemes from other tools, and scoped shortcuts that change based on context. F6 builds in C# profile, while Ctrl+Shift+B does it in General profile. This customization stems from years of developer feedback, ensuring shortcuts feel natural from the start based on how you work. 

By Mads Kristensen →

Ruby 4.0

Ruby 4.0 releases December 25th with new ZJIT compiler and redesigned Ractor communication. Ruby::Box enables loading multiple library versions simultaneously. Array#rfind provides efficient reverse searching, and object allocations are 2-4x faster.

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ty

ty is a fast Rust-based Python type checker and language server, now in Beta. It's 10-60x faster than mypy/Pyright without caching, 80-500x faster for incremental editor updates. Features advanced diagnostics, first-class intersection types, and VS Code extension support.

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just

just is a command runner that saves and executes project-specific commands. It uses simple syntax inspired by make, stores recipes in a justfile, and runs them with just RECIPE. It works cross-platform, avoids make's complexity, supports multiple languages, and loads .env files automatically.

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