MOCKA CODES
Development tutorials, technical notes, tools and engineering insights.
Development tutorials, technical notes, tools and engineering insights.
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AI-assisted development, tools, workflows, and observations on coding with AI.
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Cameras, peripherals, and physical kit used in development and content creation.
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The human side of engineering — mindset, habits, communication, and learning.
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- AI Can Make You Faster. It Can't Make You Senior.
AI can make a graduate engineer dramatically faster, but seniority was never about how quickly you could type code. It comes from accumulated experience, business context, judgment and knowing how to use what you have learned when the next unfamiliar problem arrives.
- The Abstraction Ladder: Guardrails for Acceleration
AI agents can make implementation dramatically faster, but the engineering does not disappear. It moves upward into architecture, constraints, tests, CI and the guard rails that let agents work quickly without turning bad assumptions into bad systems.
- The Many Hats Engineer
AI does not need to replace an engineer's expertise to be useful. The real advantage is using it deliberately to cover the other hats involved in building a product while keeping control of the engineering decisions you understand best.
- This Kills Your AI Token Usage
After years of using agentic AI to generate, debug and architect programs, it has become evident that there are a few things that lead you to an exhausted monthly usage regardless of how large your bucket is.
- Discord Stream Overlay Hack
A BetterDiscord CSS guide for keeping stream overlay names visible while gaming or tabbed away from Discord.
- Discord Stream Overlay Hack (For Pop Out)
A Codes-side workaround for keeping Discord stream name tags visible when streams are opened in pop-out windows.
- The Spiritual Successor to Teamspeak
A Codes-side comparison of Discord and Teamspeak through usability, integrations, social features, and cross-platform access.
- Create your first Discord Bot
A starter guide for creating a Discord bot and introducing basic bot concepts for communities and gaming servers.
- How to Film in S-Log 3
A camera workflow guide for filming in S-Log 3 on Sony cameras to preserve dynamic range and grading flexibility.
- Migrating WordPress Sites (Without Plugins)
A WordPress migration guide for moving a site manually without relying on migration plugins.
- Swapping over to Windows 11
A clean-install diary about moving to Windows 11, refreshing the operating system, and rebuilding a working setup.
- The Death of Xamarin Forms | .NET MAUI
A mobile development note on Xamarin Forms, .NET MAUI, and Microsoft's cross-platform application direction.