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AI Your AI Meeting Notes Are Losing Context
AI meeting summaries compress conversations into bullet points, but downstream agents need the full transcript to produce useful output.
3 min readDEV Why 84EM Has Multiple Domains Now
How splitting services and content across 84em.com, .io, and .blog gives each audience a dedicated front door instead of one crowded homepage.
5 min readAI Using FFmpeg to Let Claude Code See a Client's Bug
How to convert a client's screen recording into sequential image frames so Claude Code can visually analyze the bug being demonstrated.
4 min readDEV How I Wrote a Python Script to Parse Google Timeline Data Instead of Just Installing a Mileage App
How I reverse-engineered Google Maps Timeline JSON data with a Python script to extract months of business mileage instead of installing a tracking app.
8 min readAI AI Web Research Has a Fact-Checking Problem
Web fetch tools can return confidently wrong prices, features, and specs alongside accurate content. Here's the verification step that caught it.
5 min readDEV Trello Planner Doesn't Mark You as Busy in Google Calendar. Here's How to Fix It.
Trello Planner creates Focus Time events that don't mark you as busy in Google Calendar. A free Google Apps Script fixes it in five minutes.
9 min readDEV The Subscriptions Behind Every Client Project
The paid services that make client work sustainable, and why free alternatives don't cut it.
11 min readDEV Meilisearch for WordPress: A Developer's Honest Take
Meilisearch as a WordPress search backend compared to ElasticSearch, Algolia, Relevanssi, and SearchWP. What works, what doesn't, and when it makes sense.
15 min readAI Claude Opus 4.6: What Actually Matters for Developers
A practical breakdown of Claude Opus 4.6 for developers: coding improvements, 1M token context window, adaptive thinking, and what early adopters are reporting.
6 min readAI WordPress.com Now Has a Claude Connector
WordPress.com shipped an official Claude connector built on MCP and OAuth 2.1. What it does, why the hosted vs. self-hosted distinction matters, and what it signals for the broader WordPress ecosystem.
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