I Built a Faster PWA Icon Generator in a Weekend
January 26, 2026
a fast, interactive CLI that generates all the icons you need for iOS, Android, Windows 11, and favicons from a single image
Hey, I'm Sivaram
I write about software engineering, AI-assisted development, and the craft of building products that matter.
Latest Posts
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Building Bags.fm Embeds: A Free Tool to Make Crypto Community Support Visible
January 18, 2026
Token addresses are forgettable. Community support shouldn't be. How I built Bags.fm Embeds with Go, Redis, and a background worker pattern.
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Claude Code's Quiet Context Revolution
January 18, 2026
Claude Code shipped explicit control over context - clearing conversation history when you accept a plan. Here's why this compiler-style workflow matters for serious development.
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MdBin Levels Up: From Custom Markdown Pipeline to Streamdown
January 17, 2026
How I migrated MdBin from markdown-it + Shiki to Vercel's Streamdown, gaining built-in code copy, working Mermaid SSR, math support, enhanced security, and a 98% smaller bundle—all from one component.
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Nano Banana Prompt Templates: The Gemini Image Generation Patterns That Actually Work
January 13, 2026
Battle-tested prompt templates from Google's official Nano Banana documentation. 7 proven patterns for photorealistic photography, stylized illustrations, text rendering, product shots, and more.
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Building Reliable RAG Systems: Chunking, Retrieval, and Reranking
January 11, 2026
A practical end-to-end guide to building production-quality RAG systems. Learn why most RAG failures happen upstream of the LLM and how to fix chunking, retrieval, and reranking for dramatically better results.
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Building a Production-Ready Prediction Market Smart Contract in Solidity: Complete Guide with Foundry
January 8, 2026
An open-source, gas-optimized prediction market smart contract in Solidity using Foundry. Features pot-based binary markets, proportional payout distribution, admin resolution, and comprehensive security patterns.
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Building a Prediction Market on Solana with Anchor: Complete Rust Smart Contract Guide
January 7, 2026
An open-source prediction market program on Solana using Anchor framework. Features pot-based binary markets, PDA-based account management, SPL token integration, and proportional payout distribution.
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The Ralph Wiggum Approach: Running AI Coding Agents for Hours (Not Minutes)
January 6, 2026
Discover how to run Claude Code in persistent iterative loops that self-correct and improve over multiple iterations. Build entire features overnight with the Ralph Wiggum plugin.
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How the Creator of Claude Code Uses Claude Code: A Complete Breakdown
January 5, 2026
Boris, the creator of Claude Code, shared his complete workflow on Twitter. Learn his strategies for 15+ parallel sessions, CLAUDE.md, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and verification loops.
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MdBin: Share Beautiful Rendered Markdown Instead of Raw Code
October 15, 2025
Introducing MdBin—a free utility for sharing beautifully rendered GitHub-flavored markdown. No signup, no paywalls, no friction. Just paste markdown and share a link.