AI Coding Zen and the Art of Context Management
Forget the perfect prompt - mastering context management is the real secret to productive AI-assisted development.
I’m Devon Hillard, an enterprise architect who’s been building for the web since 1998. I’ve shipped eCommerce platforms for AT&T, Procter & Gamble, and Ulta, co-founded a hosting company that grew from three guys in a coffee shop to serving the Fortune 1000, and built 10MinuteMail , a service that’s been running for nearly 20 years on pure stubbornness and ad revenue. These days I lead AI strategy at McFadyen Digital and run Black Magic Consulting , helping companies cut through the AI noise and apply LLMs, agents, and automation to problems that actually matter. I also maintain several open-source projects in the Spring Boot and Cloudflare ecosystems.
My Personal Single Pane of Glass Dashboard
I wanted one screen that surfaces everything I care about during the workday: without juggling tabs, picking up my phone, or sending my data to anyone else's cloud. So I built one. Here's what's in it, the caveats, and who it's actually for.
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My first Maven Central library: Free Cloudflare Turnstile integration for Spring Boot with zero CAPTCHA friction.
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