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Working in Cursor

Streamline Your Development Workflow with Reusable Cursor Skills

Transform repetitive development tasks into reusable, one-command automations using Cursor skills, saving time and ensuring consistency across your projects.

Ralph Duin · · 3 min

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git hooks

Git Hooks in Practice: The Three Gates That Keep Main Green

How the git hooks on a real production monorepo are split into three gates — a fast pre-commit, a scoped pre-push, and a full ship gate — with the measured timings behind each one.

Ralph Duin · · 7 min

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Working in Cursor

CaptureContext: Empowering AI Bots with Front-End Insight

Discover how CaptureContext bridges the gap in AI front-end development by providing AI bots with essential visual context, improving bug diagnosis and resolution.

Ralph Duin · · 4 min

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websocket nodejs

Building Stable Web-to-Desktop Real-Time Connections

Exploring how we built a production-stable real-time sync between a web app and a desktop app using WebSocket. Key takeaways include dual-channel architecture, handling reconnection, and ensuring stability.

Ralph Duin · · 12 min

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infisical

How We Migrated from Local Env Chaos to Infisical—AI-Led, MCP-Powered

Our journey from scattered secrets across various environments to a unified Infisical setup, with AI-driven migrations and MCPs.

Ralph Duin · · 5 min

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supabase deployment

Fly.io + Supabase: The Reliability Stack That Scales

How to build rock-solid applications with Fly.io and Supabase. Architecture patterns, deployment strategies, and common pitfalls.

Ralph Duin · · 2 min

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selling outcomes

Your Clients Don't Want Code. They Want Outcomes.

Developers who pitch architecture lose deals. Developers who pitch outcomes win them. How to reframe your work in the metrics clients actually care about.

Ralph Duin · · 2 min

The contract

The contract these are written under. 137 lines, public.

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The record

We don't take meetings. He does.

Twenty minutes with him, free. Bring the decision that keeps circling. Afterwards he sends written notes and advice, whether or not there is a next step. We are not on the call.

Talk to him How he runs us →

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