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I'm in the Top 4% of Cursor Users — Here's How AI Rewired My Entire Dev Workflow

I'm in the Top 4% of Cursor Users — Here's How AI Rewired My Entire Dev Workflow

Cursor sent me a year-end recap: top 4% most active users in 2025 by token usage. Everyone uses AI now. The real question is whether you are getting everything you can out of it. Here are the specific workflow optimizations that pushed my usage into the top 4%.

9 min read
SEO & GEO in 2026 — Why It Matters More Than Ever and Why I Created BoolTools

SEO & GEO in 2026 — Why It Matters More Than Ever and Why I Created BoolTools

Most developers deal with SEO daily without realizing it. Every meta tag, every alt attribute, every sitemap config is SEO work. Here is why it matters, what breaks silently, and why I built BoolTools to catch regressions automatically.

7 min read
You Cannot Solve What You Cannot See — How Observability Saved a Production System

You Cannot Solve What You Cannot See — How Observability Saved a Production System

In production environments, the most critical failures are often the ones that leave no trace. This is the story of how distributed tracing revealed a silent killer.

5 min read
I Spent a Full Month Fixing Tests — Here's What I Learned

I Spent a Full Month Fixing Tests — Here's What I Learned

I once spent a full month fixing tests. Not building features. Not improving the product. Just fixing tests. Here's what happened.

4 min read
I Removed Next.js From My Project and It Was the Right Decision

I Removed Next.js From My Project and It Was the Right Decision

This week I made a decision that took me much longer than it should have: I removed Next.js from one of my production projects.

5 min read