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It started, as these things do, with a key rotation.

I've been using AI assistants long enough now to have developed some opinions about where each one actually shines and where it doesn't.

There is a quiet shift happening in how people work with technology. You no longer need to know Bash, Python, or SQL by heart to get things done.

A practical story about Oracle 19c, RHEL 9, and an unexpected referral.

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I was automating an Oracle 19c installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 by creating an Ansible-playbook. What followed was a small lesson in how AI tools are starting to complement each other in ways I didn't expect.

I sell things on Marktplaats. Not professionally, just the usual household clutter that accumulates faster than you'd think.

If you run Claude Code heavily, you've probably stared at the usage bar wondering how much of your 5-hour block is gone — and whether your extra credits are quietly draining. I built a small bash script to stop guessing and start logging.