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Five months ago, I walked away from a six‑figure AI career I’d spent more than a decade building. Not because I hated it, I actually loved most of it. The teams, the offsites, the late‑night debugging sessions that turned into breakthroughs. But after ten years of great
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How I migrated 3 open source apps off a flaky VPS in one afternoon and saved ~$80/mo doing it For months I’d been running three open source apps on a single Coolify VPS: Ghost for my blog, Rocket.Chat for agent notifications, and a Mastra based web scraper
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What an AI Consultant Actually Does for Your Small Business (and What's a Waste of Money) In today's fast-paced digital world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't just for tech giants anymore. Claude Small businesses are increasingly leveraging AI to streamline operations, delight customers, and
How Mastra's SF Demo Day Solidified My Bet on TypeScript for AI I’ve been a software developer for over a decade, and for the past five months, I've been quietly working with Mastra, a framework I stumbled upon while searching for a seamless AI workflow
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When we launched Breezy Keys, our short-term rental business in Florida, everyone told us we needed the fanciest smart home tech. Smart locks, smart thermostats, automated everything. We tried some of it. Some stuck. Some we ditched. Here is what we actually use day to day, and why our
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I run multiple brands. Each one needs blog posts, social content, SEO optimization, and consistent publishing. Doing all of that manually was eating 15-20 hours a week. So I did what any engineer would do: I built a system. The system is called travel-micros-fleet. It is a