Saying "done" costs a model nothing, which means it carries no information. A definition of done has four machine-checkable parts: source boundaries, acceptance criteria written as observations, verification commands the agent does not own, and a list of claims it must refuse to make without evidence.
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Guide on setting up Dozzle with authentication on Coolify for secure, real-time Docker container logs, CPU, and memory monitoring.
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A one-shot QA pass is a demo. Put it on a cron and it files the same issue every morning until the qa-bot label is a landfill. Here is the loop that makes the queue drain instead of grow: a spec in version control, fingerprinted issues, a reconciler with no opinions, and auto-close when the flow goes green.
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Most MCP tutorials assume a standalone process. Here's how to expose one as just another Astro API route using Streamable HTTP — same auth, same deploy pipeline, no second app to maintain.
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Extending the Datastar chat widget with the browser's native SpeechRecognition API — no new backend, no transcription service, just one more way to fill the same signal.
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Take the Astro + Datastar + Vercel AI SDK stack from this series and run it entirely on your own machine with Ollama — no API key, no per-token cost, no data leaving your laptop. It's a one-import change.
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Stream typed, structured data from the Vercel AI SDK and watch a card build itself field by field in a Datastar UI — using streamText with output, the v6 replacement for streamObject. No React.
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My dialer QAs itself: Claude Code logs in, dials a list of Twilio test numbers — a voicemail, an IVR, a simulated gatekeeper — records what happened vs. what should have, and files GitHub issues for another agent to fix.
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Turn the streaming chat widget into an agent that calls tools — and stream the tool-call status live into the conversation. Astro, Datastar, and the AI SDK v6 ToolLoopAgent, no React.
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A full multi-turn chat widget with live token streaming — where the server owns the conversation and the DOM is just the view. No React, no useChat, no client framework.
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A small, genuinely useful build: a button that streams an AI summary of the current page into a panel, using Astro, Datastar, and the Vercel AI SDK — no React, no client framework.
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The Vercel AI SDK's useChat only ships React, Vue, and Svelte bindings. Here's the small, reusable pattern for streaming AI tokens into a plain Datastar UI instead — no framework required
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You don't need OneSignal or Firebase to send push notifications. Web push with VAPID keys is built into every modern browser — here's the full setup in Astro: service worker, subscribe flow, SSR endpoints, and sending from the server.
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How I wired up a tiny TLDR tool that takes a URL, extracts the article, and streams a Markdown summary back to the browser in real time — using Astro SSR, Datastar for reactivity, and the Vercel AI SDK for the model call.
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n8n is a powerful workflow automation tool that helps connect different services and automate tasks, ideal for personal or small-scale use.
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Vibe coding is great, using some sort of AI assistance to help code your app, but it isn't entirely as straight forward as some think. People tend to think they can just open up an IDE such as cursor or windsurf and ask it to build something but that's not how to achieve success with it.
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Vercel's AI SDK is a handy resource for building AI powered webapps but they don't have any examples on how to use it with Astro. So I thought I'd write this post to show how to set up a small chatbot in Astro that uses it.
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Plausible is great but despite being a privacy friendly analytics tracker, sometimes it still gets blocked by blocklists who want to block all trackers, Proxying is the way to get around this.
Read moreWe are excited to announce that after nearly 2 years of sustained effort since releasing Remix version 1 — 19 minor releases, over 100 patch releases, and thousands of closed issues and pull requests — we are releasing Remix v2 into the world today.
Read morePlausible is great but despite being a privacy friendly analytics tracker, sometimes it still gets blocked by blocklists who want to block all trackers, Proxying is the way to get around this.
Read moreSo, here's something that makes me feel old: React celebrated its 10th birthday this year!
Read moreCredit to Kent C. Dodds for this idea, ghost routes are a handy way to create a repeatable component route used by other child routes.
Read moreJust as you can use robots.txt to block search engines and various bots from crawling your site, you can do the same with OpenAI's GPTBot.
Read moreEarlier this week, Netlify officially killed The Jamstack Community Discord. It was a rather abrupt end, with little more than a week’s notice.
Read moreSentry is great for error monitoring, and flexible. This post will show how to add Sentry to your remix apps so it's set up for error, performance, and replay monitoring.
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AI models are fascinating, I've been building a few sites as well as extensions, etc that use chatGPT, Dall-e, and others to accomplish various tasks.
Read moreAdding Directus to your dokku stack is fast and easy.
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Want to deploy a Directus site on Fly.io? This example is a quick starter to get started...
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The Directed Stack is a full-stack Remix stack that combines Directus as the backend and Remix for the app, easily customizable to build on
Read moreWant to deploy a Directus site on Railway? This example is a quick starter to get… started
Read moreBeing able to preview a new post is important, and when headless, it's even more important.
Read moreLet's get started on a nice way to proxy docker containers with let's encrypt and nginx
Read moreI've been using Google Analytics for years but decided to try new tools. But I just wanted to move onto a new Analytics tool that was faster and more private. What I eventually ended up choosing was Plausible. Plausible is a powerful yet simple analytics platform. The simplicity is what got me happy about it.
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