From design to deployment - My technical-digital diary

What Happens When Your Open Source Project Suddenly Gets Attention

An Honest Debrief

Dec 9, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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From Personal Script to Public Tool: How I Built a Windows Setup Generator

Turning a Personal Automation Into a Tool Anyone Can Use

Dec 2, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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November 2025

How I hacked my own hardware monitor using a text file and some C# magic

Why install 500MB of bloatware when 10MB of code and a text file can do the trick?

Nov 27, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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What does fixing a child’s lamp have to do with repairing a slow CI/CD pipeline?

Sometimes, the most impactful changes come from simple, pragmatic fixes. This story highlights observation, practicality, and the power of being an…

Nov 24, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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May 2025

Why Your Monitoring is Failing You — and How Observability Can Fix It

Why your dashboards aren't enough — and how to evolve from reactive monitoring to real, actionable observability

May 3, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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March 2025

You’re Not Coding Alone Anymore: Coding in the Age of Agents

How LLMs, code agents, MCPs, and "vibe coding" are reshaping the way we build and think about software.

Mar 30, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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Why did I rewrite my website from scratch to make it (almost) identical?

This is not a text (only) about Next.js or React, but about the hidden complexities of software engineering decisions.

Mar 11, 2025 • Kaic Bento

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December 2024

Be your tool's best friend, not its enemy

i.e. don't spend the day fighting against your computer

Dec 22, 2024 • Kaic Bento

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