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Posts tagged #tooling — Page 2
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
tag: #tooling
developmentAug 6, 2026· 4 min
GraphQL Trusted Documents: Stop Letting Strangers Write Your Queries
Disabling introspection is not security. Trusted documents let your server execute only the operations your own developers wrote, and you probably already…
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developmentAug 2, 2026· 3 min
The Sanitizer API: Safe HTML Injection Without DOMPurify
The browser can now strip XSS from an HTML string during parsing. Here's how setHTML works, why its config can only narrow the allowlist, and how to ship it…
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developmentJul 30, 2026· 3 min
Laravel 13 PHP Attributes: Config That Lives With Your Code
Laravel 13 expands first-party PHP attributes across controllers, authorization, and queued jobs. Here is what actually changed, and where attributes are…
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developmentJul 19, 2026· 3 min
CSS @function: Reusable Logic Comes Native to the Browser
CSS finally has real, reusable functions. The new @function at-rule lets you define typed helpers that run in the browser with live values — here is how it…
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developmentJul 1, 2026· 4 min
Fallow: A Codebase Truth Layer for Agent-Written Code
Fallow is a Rust-native tool that maps your whole TS/JS codebase to catch dead code, duplication, and architecture drift.
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developmentJun 29, 2026· 3 min
Building a Claude Code Status Line With Usage Bars and a Clickable Repo
A walkthrough of a custom Claude Code status line that renders context and rate-limit usage as colored bars and turns your repo name into a clickable link.
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developmentJun 28, 2026· 3 min
Grimicorn Neon: When a Calm Theme Goes Loud
The high-voltage variant of Grimicorn keeps every semantic role and swaps in eight electric hexes. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and the contrast…
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developmentJun 27, 2026· 3 min
Building Grimicorn: One Palette, Fourteen Tools
How I turned a single calm, low-fatigue color palette into matching dark and light themes for VS Code, terminals, Obsidian, Claude Code and ten other tools…
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developmentJun 22, 2026· 3 min
CSS @property: Typed, Animatable Custom Properties
Unregistered CSS custom properties can't animate — they just snap. @property fixes that by giving the browser a type, a default, and an inheritance rule…
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