I wrote four lines to capture a bash error for a guide. One empty variable, tested twice: $ cat queue-check.sh !/bin/bash count="" if $count -eq 0 ; then echo "queue empty"; fi if $count -eq 0 ; then echo "queue empty "; fi $ bash queue-check.sh...

"Loyalty program" covers a lot of different mechanisms, and choosing the wrong one is a more common mistake than choosing the wrong reward. A coffee shop and a luxury retailer can both say they run a incentive and loyalty program1 while building comp...

Part 2 of 4 on IBR’s Mini Strategy Handbook for AI Founders. This is the review about distribution, and I’m going to write it the way it tells me to: with the scar showing. In Part 1 I confessed to shipping eight products this year and being much be...

Someone built a torture chamber for small AI models, and the internet wanted it gone. I went through the paper it was built on to find out what a model's "pain" actually is. What is it about In late September 2026, a GitHub repository called ai-to...

A coding agenthttps://raylabs.app/articles/ai-coding-agent-vps-or-mac/ assigned to one package may not need every sibling directory in a large repository working tree. Git worktrees provide separate working directories associated with one repository,...

> Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/a-thousand-cleared-ai-devices/. The FDA publishes a spreadsheet of every AI-enabled medical device it has ever authorized. One row per device: a name, a company, a clearan...

As a web developer, one thing I’ve learned is that a website can work perfectly during development but behave very differently after real users start using it. A page loads quickly when there are only a few records in the database. Buttons respond i...

Advice on channel incentives tends to float at the level of principle: reward the right behaviors, keep it simple, pay quickly. That's useful, but it's easier to evaluate when you can see how specific, well-known programs actually apply those ideas, ...

We recorded the order book of every Polymarket football soccer market for three weeks and tested two in-play ideas: buying a team right after a late price jump at a level score, and protecting goal bets with a stop-loss. Neither paid. Buying the jump...

A SPIF sometimes spelled SPIFF is a short-term incentive that rewards sales reps for a specific action or result, such as selling a particular product, booking a set number of demos, or closing deals before the end of a quarter. Done well, it redirec...

Launching a crypto exchange is not simply about putting a trading interface online. The real challenge is building a platform where users can trade, deposit, withdraw, and manage digital assets without worrying about security failures or operational ...

Desktop automation has a dirty secret: it’s terrifyingly brittle. If you’ve ever written a script that relies on static X/Y coordinates, you know the pain. A Windows update changes a button's padding by 5 pixels, a user moves a window, or UI scaling ...

AI coding agents are changing how we build software. They can generate features, fix bugs, write tests, and help developers move faster. But there's a question I keep thinking about: How do we know an AI coding agent changed what we intended it to ...

Revoking an AI Agent Is Not the Same as Stopping Its Authority When a user revokes an AI agent’s authorization, what happens to the tasks, delegated credentials, and queued operations the agent already created? This question is central to my resear...

Launching a cryptocurrency exchange is a major business opportunity, but building everything from scratch can take months of planning, development, testing, and security reviews. For founders who want to enter the crypto market faster, a Binance clon...