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Where agentic coding tools spend tokens in practice
Context windows, tool loops, and retries multiply spend — budgets and caching that keep demos affordable.
9 min readShip Agent Plugins, Not Naked MCP Servers
Ship MCP tools as agent plugins with skills, permissions and install metadata, so hosts get a finished capability instead of a bare MCP server adapter.
11 min readLocal AI After Ollama: Choosing Runtimes in 2026
Ollama is a great on-ramp but a weak long-term control plane. Which local LLM runtime fits each stage after it: llama.cpp, LM Studio, vLLM and related tools.
15 min readWho writes the code when agents join the workflow?
From autocomplete to agent swarms: map each coding agent tier to blast radius, test coverage and review gates, so humans stay on the code that really matters.
10 min readNitroStack vs mcp-use + Manufact: which MCP stack fits growth
Compare mcp-use with Manufact against NitroStack for MCP servers: architecture, tooling, cross-client testing, and when application structure starts to matter.
6 min readPreview JSX on Windows Without Installing React or VS Code
JSX will not open as a webpage on double-click. When you only need to inspect or compare a component, a dedicated Windows preview tool can beat scaffolding a full React project.
3 min readPreview JSX without scaffolding a React project first
JSX is not double-clickable HTML; Preview Kit and similar tools separate generate-preview from full Node and React setup so experimental components stay disposable.
5 min readRemoving Daily Developer Friction: AI Context, Diffs, Ports and Docs
A practical tour of small tools for AI context, branch comparison, port sharing, responsive checks, docs, JSON, schemas and learning paths, with pitfalls.
12 min readHunting JavaScript Memory Leaks: Reachability, Retainers and Cleanup
Learn why garbage-collected JavaScript still leaks, which everyday patterns retain memory, and how to find the culprit with heap snapshots and retainer chains.
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