Insights on platform engineering, developer tools, and indie hacking from Kamil Chmielewski. Learn about building tools that empower developers to ship faster, debug smarter, and gain deep insights into their systems.
Announcing Code Doctrine: the reusable public version of my AI coding constitution, refined through real use and designed for customization, installation, and sharing across agent environments.
In the era of LLM-written code, your engineering rules matter more than ever. Why every solo developer and team should define a coding constitution for their AI agents—and the one I use myself.
LLMs are useful for authoring deployment checks. Making a prompt part of the deployment path is a reliability, auditability, and cost mistake.
Use the Copilot subscription you already pay for directly inside a GitHub Action. No extra services, gateways, or infra. A single inline call to the chat endpoint so lightweight developer tasks run in CI—consistent, repeatable, not tied to a laptop.
Thirteen failed releases reminded me that embracing errors beats prediction. Discover how the Erlang "let it crash" mindset rescued my CI/CD pipeline and the one-line Bash fix that did it.
Solving type drift between Rust backends and TypeScript frontends with automatic code generation. Two open-source crates that generate Zod schemas and TypeScript types directly from Rust structs.
In the era of AI-generated code, vibe coding has made writing code effortless but proving it works crucial. Learn Show Me The Demo Development - a methodology that treats demos as specifications using Playwright UI for real-time feedback.
AI has changed the game. I'm happily paying for dev tools that make me faster. Is this the dawn of a new golden era for dev tools?
I ditched complex SaaS planning tools for plain markdown files managed in SilverBullet. Here's why it was a game-changer for my workflow.
A year ago, I left my job to be a full-time parent. In my spare time, I built Cimatic, a tool to optimize CI/CD pipelines. Here's the story.