GDS K S

Senior Software Engineer at Marriott | Glincker Founder, Architect | Writing about system architecture, cloud scaling & AI/ML | AWS, Spring Boot, Next.js

United States Joined on Nov 2, 2025 https://thegdsks.com

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Hidden math of multi-step agent loops

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Apr 23

The Token Tab: A Developer's Audit of the AI Hype Stack

#ai #devtools #productivity #career

7 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth Audit Trails: Compliance Logging for AI Agent Actions

#security #ai #compliance #webdev

19 min read

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Oct 10

Secure an MCP Server for Production with theAuth

#mcp #ai #security #typescript

21 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth Multi-Tenant SaaS Auth: Orgs, RBAC, SSO, SCIM

#saas #security #typescript #tutorial

16 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth for AI Agents: Identity and Scoped Permissions

#ai #webdev #programming #security

17 min read

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Oct 10

Migrate from Auth0 or Clerk to theAuth, Step by Step

#authentication #migration #typescript #tutorial

21 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth Passwordless Login: Passkeys, Magic Links, OTP

#webdev #security #authentication #tutorial

18 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth Guide: Cap Agent Spend and Require Human Approval

#ai #security #typescript #tutorial

18 min read

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Oct 10

theAuth: Add Login to an Existing Next.js App

#typescript #webdev #security #tutorial

19 min read

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Oct 10

Leave Vercel for Your Own Server: A Next.js Migration Runbook

#nextjs #vercel #selfhosted #devops

5 min read

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Oct 10

Let an AI Agent Deploy Safely: A Scoped MCP Server With an Audit Trail

#ai #mcp #devops #selfhosted

6 min read

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Oct 10

Migrate from Coolify, Dokploy or CapRover Without Touching the Old Server

#selfhosted #docker #devops #tutorial

5 min read

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Oct 10

Add Google, GitHub or OIDC Sign-In to Your Self-Hosted Dashboard, and Keep It Safe

#oauth #sso #selfhosted #security

5 min read

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Oct 5

Levelrail vs Coolify, Dokploy and CapRover: An Honest Comparison

#selfhosted #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Oct 4

Install a Self-Hosted PaaS on a $5 VPS in Five Minutes (Levelrail)

#selfhosted #docker #devops #tutorial

6 min read

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Sep 24

Free AWS, Azure and GCP architecture icons as SVG

#aws #azure #devops #opensource

5 min read

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Jul 20

Streaming LLM responses in TypeScript: SSE, ReadableStream, and the React 19 useChat hook.

#ai #typescript #react #tutorial

7 min read

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Jul 15

Type-safe LLM outputs with Zod: stop guessing what the model returns.

#typescript #ai #tutorial #webdev

8 min read

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Jul 13

Building a production AI agent in TypeScript with Mastra: a 2026 step-by-step.

#ai #typescript #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

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Jun 14

OpenAI Codex now finishes 85% of scoped tasks. Here is the /goal workflow that gets you there.

#ai #productivity #tutorial #javascript

7 min read

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Jun 9

Building a production TypeScript CLI in 2026: oclif vs commander vs custom.

#typescript #node #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

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Jun 8

RAG with Postgres pgvector in 2026: the full TypeScript pipeline.

#ai #postgres #typescript #tutorial

7 min read

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May 29

TanStack shipped a postmortem for the 42-package npm compromise. Here is what every project should change this week.

#security #javascript #webdev #tutorial

8 min read

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May 27

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is 4x faster than other frontier models. Here is how to call it from TypeScript.

#ai #typescript #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

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May 26

Build your first MCP server in TypeScript: the 2026 setup that takes 30 minutes.

#ai #typescript #tutorial #webdev

6 min read

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May 26

Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually works.

#ai #productivity #tutorial #webdev

6 min read

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May 23

Microsoft tried to kill the printer driver. Healthcare said no.

#webdev #productivity #opensource #beginners

7 min read

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May 22

Google redesigned 13 Workspace icons last week. Here is where to grab the new SVGs.

#design #webdev #opensource #javascript

6 min read

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May 21

I shipped a working landing page in 14 KB. Here is every byte.

#webdev #performance #tutorial #javascript

8 min read

The kill rule and spreadsheet calculator

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May 19

The portfolio math. When 30 small apps beat 1 big one.

#webdev #indiehackers #startup #productivity

7 min read

Inspired by a 1950s Soviet compiler rebuild

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May 17

How to read any legacy codebase. The archaeology playbook.

#webdev #programming #tutorial #productivity

9 min read

Tactical deletions for Next.js and Vite

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May 14

Your bundle is 4000x bigger than Quake. The 9-step audit that fixes it.

#webdev #performance #javascript #tutorial

8 min read

4x to 7x overhead versus direct API calls

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May 13

I asked Cursor to rename a function. It sent 8,400 tokens. I checked.

#ai #cursor #claude #productivity

6 min read

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May 12

AWS Lambda Is Dead. The $0.20 Was Never the Price

#aws #serverless #cloudflare #webdev

10 min read

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May 10

The first time you watch an AI agent buy something, you will feel something you cannot name.

#ai #agents #cloudflare #stripe

5 min read

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May 9

Anthropic hit B ARR in 16 months. I went looking for where the money is actually coming from.

#anthropic #ai #startup #economics

6 min read

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May 7

Anthropic just rented Elon Musk's data center. The price of a Claude token is about to make sense.

#anthropic #ai #infrastructure #startup

6 min read

Uses regex to bypass wrapper context bloat

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May 7

I built a 200 line AI router in TypeScript. My monthly bill dropped 41%.

#typescript #ai #webdev #tutorial

6 min read

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May 7

Cloudflare and Stripe just let agents buy domains and ship code. Here is the API.

#ai #javascript #webdev #cloudflare

6 min read

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May 3

Giving an AI agent permission to spawn sub-agents (without losing control)

#ai #typescript #security #opensource

4 min read

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May 2

Free SVG brand icons in 2026: thesvg.org vs svgl vs Simple Icons

#design #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

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Apr 30

I rewrote my auth library to run on Cloudflare Workers. Here is what broke.

#cloudflare #typescript #webdev #serverless

4 min read

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Apr 29

Adding OAuth 2.1 to your MCP server in TypeScript

#tutorial #oauth #typescript #ai

5 min read

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Apr 29

Prompt Caching With the Claude API: A Practical Guide

#ai #anthropic #api #performance

6 min read

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Apr 28

An AI Tool Had OAuth to Their Whole Google Workspace. Then Vercel Got Breached.

#security #webdev #devtools #ai

6 min read

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Apr 28

GitHub Copilot Switches to Usage-Based Billing on June 1. The Token Tab Came Due.

#ai #webdev #devtools #productivity

6 min read

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Apr 25

The Quiet Sabotage: Why Most of My Dead Projects Died of Overthinking

#productivity #ai #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

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Apr 23

Claude Code Felt Off for a Month. Here Is What Broke.

#ai #productivity #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

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Apr 18

I replaced Auth0 with an open source library in 30 minutes. Here is what broke.

#authentication #opensource #javascript #devops

7 min read

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Apr 18

How to build a secure password reset flow in Next.js (the short version)

#nextjs #authentication #webdev #tutorial

7 min read

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Apr 18

How to build a login flow in Next.js 15 (sessions, cookies, CSRF, and the timing attack nobody talks about)

#nextjs #authentication #webdev #tutorial

10 min read

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Apr 18

How to build a register user flow in Next.js 15 (frontend, backend, database, email)

#nextjs #authentication #webdev #tutorial

9 min read

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Apr 18

The 8 tables behind a real auth system (Postgres schema, explained column by column)

#postgres #authentication #database #webdev

10 min read

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Apr 18

I've built auth six times. Here's the system I would build today

#authentication #webdev #nextjs #tutorial

5 min read

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Apr 15

Checking TLS cert expiry across your infrastructure

#github #opensource #development #javascript

3 min read

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Apr 15

I stopped memorizing openssl flags

#rust #cli #security #productivity

4 min read

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Apr 15

Your terminal is mass, here are 280+ tools to fix it

#showdev #cli #terminal #opensource

5 min read

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Apr 13

Your VS Code Extensions Are a Supply Chain Attack Surface

#security #vscode #webdev #productivity

5 min read

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Apr 13

How I Built a Multi-Agent Code Review Pipeline

#ai #github #tutorial #productivity

7 min read

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Apr 13

How I Built a Multi-Agent Code Review Pipeline

#ai #github #tutorial #productivity

5 min read

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Apr 10

Parsing 11 languages in pure Go without CGO: how I replaced regex with a tree-sitter runtime

#go #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

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