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Software Architecture · May 31, 2026

The BMad Method: A Structured Development Methodology for AI-Assisted Coding

Four phases, one rule: never ask an AI to code what it cannot describe. How the BMad Method (Build More Architect Dreams) keeps AI collaboration structured, auditable, and actually productive. Docs: docs.bmad-method.org

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Software Architecture · May 31, 2026

Building a Weekly Meal Pipeline: Scraper, LLM Vision, and Automated Meal Plans

How I built an automated pipeline that scrapes 3 grocery circulars, analyzes 44 images with Gemini, generates Ricardo-style weekly menus, and pushes everything to a web dashboard — saving hours every week.

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Software Architecture · May 31, 2026

OCR Extraction Benchmark: DeepSeek API vs NuExtract-tiny vs Tesseract

I built a benchmark to compare three approaches for structured data extraction from Quebec receipts. Here's what 18 synthetic receipts across 15 professions revealed about accuracy, speed, and cost.

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Software Architecture · May 27, 2026

The BMAD Method: A Structured Approach to AI-Assisted Development

I run 17 projects with AI assistance. Without a structured methodology, every session was a fresh start. The BMAD Method changed that — here is how a 4-phase workflow turned AI from a coding autocomplete into a true development partner.

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Software Architecture · Mar 14, 2026

How I Used Impeccable Design Language for AI to Design My Personal Site

One pass with Impeccable’s flow gave my AI a permanent design spec. No more re-explaining, no style drift. here’s how and what to do first.

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