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Taming Localhost Ports with Caddy: Never Remember a Port Number Again

How I stopped juggling port numbers in my monorepo by using Caddy's wildcard routing. Now pregni-web.dev.localhost opens Pregni, sashka-marketing.dev.localhost opens Sashka. Simple, memorable, instant.

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Alex Raihelgaus

Dec 22, 2025

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The Curse of Cursor: How the Best AI Coding Tool Broke Developer Trust

Cursor gave us the VS Code experience we know plus AI superpowers. Then reality hit. Here's why the tool that exploded AI coding adoption also killed developer trust—and what actually works better.

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Stop Treating Your LLM Like a Magic Wand

Why throwing prompts at ChatGPT doesn't make your team better, and how applying engineering discipline to AI-assisted development actually does.

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Building a Progressive Multi-Step Form with HTMX and Effect-TS

How we built a 7-step client discovery form with zero JavaScript frameworks, session-based resumability, and type-safe backend error handling in 8 hours.

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Alex Raihelgaus

Nov 18, 2025