Software engineering, AI, crypto, entrepreneurship, and news you can actually use — straight from the trenches.
The unfiltered story of funding CryptoQT™: crypto market crashes, accelerator rejections, and rigorous SBIR Phase I diligence — and why government validation matters for a startup.
Read Article →How CryptoQT™ is exploring organoid intelligence via CorticalLabs: biological neural computing, neuromorphic anomaly detection, and SBIR-backed frontier science for crypto trading.
Read Article →The unfiltered story of funding CryptoQT™: crypto market crashes, accelerator rejections, and rigorous SBIR Phase I diligence — and why government validation matters for a startup.
How CryptoQT™ is exploring organoid intelligence via CorticalLabs: biological neural computing, neuromorphic anomaly detection, and SBIR-backed frontier science for crypto trading.
How CryptoQT™ uses behavioral finance, AI, and real-time data to help you outsmart the crypto crowd. Explore the features that make trading smarter, safer, and more fun.
How I built a moderated comments system with Astro + Supabase, why I made the security choices I did, and every hiccup we resolved along the way.
Build a CSS-only RSS hover drawer in Astro: a fixed slide-in panel listing your 5 latest posts with zero JavaScript — using getCollection at build time and a pure CSS transition.
A practical guide to embedding TravelPayouts affiliate widgets in an Astro site, with solutions for Content Security Policy (CSP) and YAML formatting errors.
How Astro's static-first architecture, built-in CSP, and the Cloudflare acquisition create a security fortress that even your own AI tools can't get through.
How CryptoQT™ is built: detection architecture, behavioral finance philosophy, and hard-won lessons from shipping a crypto intelligence platform.
Legitimate DEX arbitrage vs. scam bots: how real on-chain arbitrage works, why most YouTube 'profit bots' drain wallets, and how CryptoQT™ does it right.
Add Snipcart to your Astro site: API key management, test/live mode switching, and webhook setup — no code changes needed between environments.
The AI started the dev server instead of writing articles. A first-person account of context collapse, literal interpretation, and why clarity is everything in AI collaboration.
Inline onclick and oninput handlers are CSP violations that expose your Astro site to XSS attacks. Learn why they're dangerous and how to fix them.
The moment I realized Astro's content collections feature eliminates the entire blog infrastructure problem. Type-safe, performant, scalable—and it's just markdown files.
How working with AI as a collaborative partner—not a replacement—helped us solve a tricky CSP-blocked popup component. A case study in modern development.
How U-Coin and XpertConnect™'s incentive-aligned monetization layer creates a better home-services marketplace — better for homeowners, experts, and the platform.
CryptoQT™ build update: blending quantitative trading, market psychology, and adaptive AI — research notes without exposing proprietary signal design.
XpertConnect build update: why I'm building it, how .NET architecture shapes the product, and closing the gap between generic DIY advice and expensive service calls.
Inside XpertConnect: an AI-powered DIY home repair platform with structured troubleshooting, safety escalation, and domain-driven .NET architecture — full build walkthrough.
Job boards collapsed. I got scammed, discriminated against, and ghosted. So I quit applying and started building my own products instead. Here's how.
How I tracked down Astro's 'collection does not exist' error — TypeScript traps, wrong imports, and the fix hiding in plain sight.
A practical guide to designing resilient ETL pipelines that scale. Real-world lessons from building data systems for CryptoQt™ intelligence and XpertConnect™.
How wallet drainers and crypto scam bots work, the technical red flags that expose them, and how to protect yourself — based on real research building CryptoQT™.
How AI is reshaping software engineering jobs, which developer skills still matter, and a 24-year engineer's honest take on positioning yourself ahead of the shift.
My actual AI development workflow: using GitHub Copilot and LLMs as a force multiplier without sacrificing code quality or architecture.
Hard-won lessons from 24 years as a .NET developer: career pivots, architectural decisions that aged well, and what every C# engineer should know.
Why CryptoQT™ applied to the OVHcloud Startup Program — EU cloud sovereignty, startup credits, and why it’s the right partner for a bootstrapped crypto intelligence platform.
A deep dive into why I rebuilt anthonytristan.info using Astro — focusing on speed, SEO optimization, Snipcart integration, and a cleaner content workflow.
AI agents are now hiring real humans for real-world tasks. Here's how RentAHuman.ai works and how to earn income in the emerging AI-powered gig economy.
