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How a price tracker got me $459 back on my MacBook Pro
I bought a MacBook Pro for $4,589.99 and had a small script watch the price. On day 14 it dropped to $4,130.99, and Micro Center refunded the $459 difference. How to set up the same price watch with an AI assistant, no Python needed.
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- How a price tracker got me $459 back on my MacBook ProI bought a MacBook Pro for $4,589.99 and had a small script watch the price. On day 14 it dropped to $4,130.99, and Micro Center refunded the $459 difference. How to set up the same price watch with an AI assistant, no Python needed.
- Keeping a world championship live: one developer, 990 runners and 2.4 million visitsWhat it took to build, run and protect the live results of the 2026 Big's Backyard Ultra World Team Championship on my own: the pressure, the safety nets, the two times something went wrong, and how many people around the world it served.
- From a spreadsheet to a live world championship: building the Big’s Backyard Ultra WTC 2026 dashboardHow I turned a shared Google Sheet, typed in by 67 race directors in every time zone, into a live, tested, accessible dashboard followed by hundreds of thousands of people: planned and designed over a couple of months, built and shipped in four days, and improved every few hours while the race was on.
- Do you need to know how the sausage is made?I build sites on frameworks I couldn’t rebuild from scratch, and some days that worried me. Then I thought about breakfast. On layers of abstraction, and the part you still have to know.
- One step at a timeMy AI coding agent pushed an unreviewed commit to the branch that runs my live site. What happened, how we fixed it, and the rule we work by now.
- Teaching AI coding agents to be pragmaticWhy I turned The Pragmatic Programmer into a skill for AI coding agents, and what happened when I tested agents with and without it.
- Ten things multi-day endurance taught me about workWeeks on a tandem and long days on trails taught me ten habits I now bring to every project. What each one looks like on the road and at work, and what the research does and doesn't say.
- Forging a legion for Big’s Backyard UltraHow Laz’s idea for Roman ranks became Backyard Legacy, ten titles and emblems that runners earn one hour at a time, researched with AI and rendered with Gemini.