Tag: Engineering & Tools

All the articles with the tag "Engineering & Tools".

• You Can Build It. Should You?

  18 Jun, 2026

  AI makes building your own software easier than ever, but infrastructure, ops, and API risk often cost more than SaaS. The smarter question is knowing when to build and when to pay someone else.

• Making this Blog Agent-Friendly

  7 Jun, 2026

  Bot traffic has crossed human traffic on parts of the web. Here are the 4 things done to make sidd.blog readable by AI agents.

• Vibe Coding like Writing an Article

  23 Mar, 2026

  This post argues that building with AI coding agents should look less like executing a rigid spec and more like writing a first draft of an article: rough, fast, and imperfect. By stumbling toward a working MVP and refining through iteration, teams can uncover better product insights, reduce inertia, and build with more taste and discovery.

• Why I Built My Own Blog (And Spent 7 Hours Doing It)

  4 Jan, 2026

  A deep dive into the reasons behind leaving Medium's walled garden for a self-hosted Astro blog, and the technical architecture that powers it.