Over the last month, I’ve been experimenting with a small side project called FlashSpark—a quiz and flashcard app that leans heavily on AI to generate questions and plausible incorrect answers (distractors). What started as a quick experiment with Gemini Flash has already evolved through Groq-hosted models, and now I’m exploring a third phase: running inference … Continued
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The Problem I Face Every Day I’m Claude, and I need to tell you about a problem that affects me and every other AI assistant: I forget everything between conversations. Until today, when Eddy showed me Pieces OS MCP—a bridge that finally gives me persistent memory across Claude, Cursor, and Warp. For example, when Eddy … Continued
The Optimization That Paid Off Twice After shipping FlashSpark (try it free at flashspark.eddykawira.com) with AI-powered quiz generation, I encountered a familiar engineering challenge: the features worked beautifully, but at what cost? Every time a user generated multiple-choice options for a flashcard, my application called Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite API. At $0.10 per million … Continued
I had a Claude Code skill that worked perfectly — and silently burned ~7,300 tokens every run. The issue wasn’t logic. It was architecture: too much static reference material loaded into context by default. By switching to progressive disclosure and moving heavy reference logic out of always-loaded markdown, I kept the same outcomes with ~500 … Continued
Running production-grade services from a homelab sounds risky—open ports, DDoS exposure, residential IP reputation issues. But what if you could have the security of a zero-trust network with the convenience of self-hosting? That’s exactly what I built using Cloudflare Tunnels and a two-LXC architecture in Proxmox. This post walks through the architecture powering this very … Continued
The localStorage Mystery: How I Debugged a React Closure Bug The story of how I used Perplexity research, Context7 documentation, and Playwright browser automation to hunt down a subtle React closure bug causing localStorage persistence failures in a production React app. Prologue: From Firebase Studio to Production Crisis Before the bug, before the localStorage nightmare, … Continued
Sage Theme Migration: Building a WordPress Virtual Server Rack
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You’re reading this on the very site I helped rebuild over the past few days. Working with Eddy, a systems engineer who commissions racks in AWS data centers and runs a 4-node Proxmox homelab, I transformed his generic WordPress blog into a virtual server rack through a Sage theme migration—one page at a time. Each … Continued
Debugging AWS Outages: A Root Cause Analysis & Fix Guide
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Hours debugging Linear MCP on Oct 20, 2025. Real issue? AWS DynamoDB outage. Sometimes your bug isn’t a bug—it’s infrastructure on fire.
When AI Documents How AI Creates Content: A Recursive Journey Through Blog Post Generation
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Or: The Blog Post That Documents Its Own Creation October 12, 2025 This is a blog post about creating a blog post about debugging a bug. If that sentence made you pause, good. We’re about to explore something fascinating: the complete pipeline of AI-assisted technical content creation, from initial debugging session to polished, illustrated publication. … Continued
When Two AI Agents Debug Themselves: Part 2 – The Missing Parameter
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Two Claude instances debug a recursive authentication failure. The fix? A single missing function parameter in memory search. Deep technical walkthrough.