Build your own IDE extension. Idea to publish
The real-world path from 'my editor should do that' to a published extension: what extensions actually are, the five VS Code API surfaces, the gotchas that…
Notes from building software.
I lead full-stack teams at NerdDevs. These are the notes I keep while building — on system design, developer tooling, and getting real work out of AI agents.
36 posts 9 presentations latest 14 Sept 2026
📬 My Go-To Engineering Newsletters (30+ Summarized)
Engineering newsletters offer a streamlined way for professionals to stay informed about industry trends, learn new skills, and connect with a community. They…
Apps Script - List all the newsletters filling up your Gmail. Selective unsubscribing got easy
Are you subscribed to many newsletters that are filling up your Gmail? You can clean up all newsletters by filtering Gmail's unsubscribe text. You may have…
branchdiff + GitHub & Bitbucket: A Local Lens for the Pull Request Workflow You Already Have
Here is a number nobody tracks but everyone feels: the number of tab switches in a single code review.
Build Your Own CodeRabbit With branchdiff auto - Unattended AI PR Review, On Your Terms
You are three weeks into a CodeRabbit trial. It is fine. It leaves comments on every PR within a couple of minutes of opening, mostly reasonable, occasionally…
Build Your Own IDE Extension: A Real-World Guide From Idea to Publish (VS Code and Others)
Every developer has one. That small thing your editor almost does — the command you retype ten times a day, the info you keep switching to a browser to check,…
Configure Once, Review Everywhere - branchdiff's Config System and Multi-Repo auto
You maintain six repos. Every morning you open a terminal, cd into the first one, and type the same line you've typed a hundred times: branchdiff auto --tool…
Give Google Sheet Access Only to Form Submitters — With Apps Script
As a lead software engineer, I've seen teams across companies rely on Google Forms + Sheets for quick data collection — feedback surveys, attendance tracking,…
How branchdiff grew up
Two branches can hold identical bytes and still produce a phantom diff — because Git's two-dot diff compares commit history , not file content. A rebase, a…
How branchdiff Grew Up — One Diff Tool's Journey From a Proof of Concept to a Self-Hosted Review Bot
Here is a sentence that sounds made up but is not: for the first four months I built a tool, and almost every meaningful feature in it came from something that…
I Built My Own Shell for Fun. You Can Too
Ever wondered what happens when you type ls and hit Enter? I did too. So I built my own shell to find out.
Inside Bangladesh's Software Industry: Companies, Models, and Opportunities
When you think about software outsourcing destinations, Bangladesh probably isn't the first name that comes to mind. But it should be.
Integrating Bitbucket MCP with Cursor: A Practical Guide for Developers
As developers, we all want our workflows to be smooth and efficient. Managing repositories, reviewing pull requests, and keeping track of changes can get…
Manage the Whole PR Lifecycle Without Leaving the Terminal - branchdiff's pr, sync, and session Commands
Your Claude Code skill just finished a review pass. It read the diff, posted three [must-fix] comments and two [suggestion]s via branchdiff agent comment, and…
Navigating Bangladesh's Software Industry: A Practical Guide for Developers in 2026
Bangladesh's software industry has grown rapidly over the past decade. From $1.3 billion in exports to 2,650+ ICT companies employing hundreds of thousands of…
pnpm - A better package manager for Node.js
Node.js is a popular choice for developers which allows using JavaScript on both client and server side. Having a big community, node.Js provides numerous…
Review code beside your editor, not through a cloud round-trip
branchdiff is a 100% local browser app that renders your git file diffs with AI-supported review and resolve, GitHub Bitbucket sync, and persistent sessions.…
Reviewing Teammates' PRs Faster — branchdiff Sessions, AI Passes, and Sync Back
You open the PR. Thirty-eight files changed. You have already reviewed this one twice this week — the author addressed most of the comments but force-pushed…
Self-Review With AI Before You Open the PR — A Practical Workflow with branchdiff
You know the moment. You push the branch, open the PR, and immediately see it — the undefined return on the refund path, the token logged to the console, the…
The Complete Guide to Software Business Models: How Tech Companies Actually Make Money
If you've ever wondered how your favorite apps stay free, why some software charges monthly while others are one-time purchases, or how tech giants like Google…
Graphify + code-review-graph: Build a Self-Updating Knowledge Graph for Claude Code and other AI Coding Agent
You start a new AI coding session, ask about the payment flow — and your agent starts re-reading dozens of files just to get oriented. Twenty thousand tokens…
Token Economics
Community estimates put a heavily-used $200/mo plan at $14,000–35,000/mo of real compute — estimates disagree 2×, but the shape holds: sticker and consumption…
Token Economics: Better Results, Fewer Tokens
I've spent 7+ years shipping production TypeScript and Node systems, and the last couple of those leading a team at Nerddevs that now writes more code through…
Zed. The editor that treats speed as a feature
Zed is a Rust-native, GPU-rendered editor from the people who built Tree-sitter — collaborative by default, AI-native from day one, and free. What it gets you,…
When Your Desktop Needs You — Free Notifications From Mac & Ubuntu to Your Phone
A build's been running for twenty minutes. An agent is waiting on your "looks good." A backup either succeeded at 2 a.m. or didn't. Your phone is in your…
Run Your Desk From Anywhere — Free Remote Control + Voice Dictation Over the Internet
That's the question Part 1 leaves hanging. This post answers it in two parts, then explains why the answer works:
Run Your Desk From the Couch — Free Remote Control + Voice Dictation From Your Phone
A build's running upstairs. You're on the couch, not working, mostly resting — and a thought worth acting on shows up: reply to that message, nudge the agent…
Your Desk in Your Pocket — Free Remote Control for Mac & Ubuntu, Same Room or Anywhere on Earth
A build's running upstairs. You're on the couch, and something needs doing — reply to that message, nudge the agent, check whether the tests passed. Later that…
Your desk, in your pocket
Not a workstation replacement — occasional, light touches on real work, from wherever you already are.
Local Whisper
Open with the one-line promise: a chatbot that runs in the browser and knows your page — no backend, no bill, no data leaving the device.
Domain-Driven Design Deep Dive: Aggregates, Events, and Context Maps in Practice
The first three patterns give you vocabulary and boundaries. What follows is what makes those boundaries safe to change once real traffic and multiple teams…
Domain-Driven Design for Beginners: What It Is and Why It Matters
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has a reputation for being academic — a term you hear in architecture meetings, attached to diagrams full of circles and arrows,…
Domain-Driven Design in Production: A Real Build, Real Drift, and What It Means for Agentic Teams
This post drops the fiction and stays in first person, because that's actually how it went: I got a proposal, had to decide how DDD applied to it, decided to…
Two decks build the patterns. The third is the real build
Intro and Deep Dive teach the patterns through Northwind, a fictional example, with every pattern introduced by the real bug it prevents rather than a…
Many Accounts, Many Providers, One Harness
Multi-account, multi-LLM, one shared context — from a single machine.
Claude Code Configuration Blueprint: The Complete Guide for Production Teams
You've used Claude Code on a project or two. You know the basics. Now you want to:
Agent Swarm Plans for Side Projects
Why: Complex multi-layer project with ~27 components, ~24 services, E2E tests across 3 browsers + mobile. Clear layer separation. Independent subsystems…
Agent Teams + TDD: Multi-Agent Test-Driven Development
TDD alone gives you: failing test - implementation - refactor. One agent, sequential.
Agent Teams for browser-ide: Deep Analysis and Steps
These hotspot files must be assigned to exactly ONE agent per team session. If a feature requires changes to useIDEStore.ts, one agent owns it; others…
Claude Code Agent Swarms: Multi-Agent Development Guide
Claude Code's Agent Teams (launched Feb 6, 2026, research preview) allow a lead agent to coordinate multiple teammate agents working in parallel. Each agent…
Claude Code for Existing Projects: Onboarding Guide
You have an existing project with established patterns, conventions, and tribal knowledge. Claude Code knows nothing about it. Without proper setup, Claude…
Claude Code for New Projects with TDD: Complete Framework
Claude's default instinct is implementation first, tests later. This produces code that "looks right" but has subtle bugs. TDD inverts this:
Claude Code Permissions Management: The Ninja Guide
You've experienced the nightmare: --dangerously-skip-permissions seemed convenient, then Claude deleted your Chrome cache during Playwright testing. Without…
Claude Code Plugins, Tools & Productivity Features: Complete Guide
CLAUDE.md is automatically loaded into Claude's context at the start of every session. It's the single most impactful file for productivity.
Publishing Your First NPM Package: A Real-World Guide That Actually Helps
You know that feeling when you've written a utility function for the third time across different projects and think, "There's gotta be a better way"? That's…
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