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Expanding Santi020k Theme from editor to terminal
How a VS Code palette became a generated terminal system with six application formats, three Starship styles, managed shells, validation, and Homebrew releases.
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Shipping macOS tools with a personal Homebrew tap
How I separated product code from distribution metadata and turned signed terminal releases into familiar Homebrew install and upgrade commands.
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Designing ESLint Packages Teams Actually Adopt
What separates ESLint configurations that spread across a codebase from ones that get removed after the first sprint.
In series: ESLint in Practice · Part 4
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Lumen UI: One system, three frameworks
How I built 123 accessible primitives for Astro, React, and Web Components while sharing tokens and behavior without forcing one runtime model.
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Dep Beacon: Dependency Signals Inside VS Code
Why I built Dep Beacon, a VS Code extension that keeps npm update paths, pnpm catalog context, and OSV security warnings inside manifests.
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Astro Doctor: A Health Check for Astro Codebases
Why I built Astro Doctor: a CLI, ESLint plugin, editor extension, GitHub Action, and agent skill system for catching Astro anti-patterns early.
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What Is New in @santi020k/eslint-config-basic v2.0
A practical tour of the shipped @santi020k/eslint-config-basic v2.0 release: ESLint 10, one main install, lazy frameworks, lite mode, monorepos, CLI checks, and AI standards.
In series: ESLint in Practice · Part 5
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Why Developer Experience Work Should Be Measured Like Product Work
DX improvements that cannot be measured rarely survive long enough to compound. Treating them like product work changes that.
In series: The santi020k way · Part 12
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Building Aaronmgz as a family platform
How a nautical personal site became a shared family platform for messages, invitations, administration, and a long-lived digital home.
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This series turns a private set of notes into public writing. The throughline is simple: stronger teams care about the whole system, not just the local task in front of them.
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Building a Production Next.js App
A practical sequence for turning a fresh Next.js codebase into a product teams can lint, test, document, deploy, and secure with confidence.
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A guided walkthrough from project structure to auth and delivery.
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A focused track on config design, migrations, and the standards work that keeps code reviews sharper without slowing teams down.
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