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side quests that escaped localhost.
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squinch.cc
A skill for coding agents that draws clean architecture diagrams as code — real cloud icons, zoomable from the landscape down to one service, exported as SVG, PNG or interactive HTML.
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notes from the workbench, at irregular intervals.
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Oct 4, 2026
Squinch - Architecture Diagrams Your AI Agent Can Draw
There are a lot of ways to draw architecture diagrams. None of them were quite what I wanted, so I built one that lets your AI agent draw them for you. Here's what makes Squinch different... -
Dec 2, 2014
The Meter
Meters are cool. Here's how to build an awesome analog one using the Arduino and a servo... -
Jul 16, 2013
Spring MVC Mapped Interceptors
Spring MVC 3.2 adds the ability to exclude certain request interceptors from running based off the incoming request path. Here's how it works... -
May 9, 2013
Freemarker and Exception Logging
Freemarker pushes a lot of information to the logs. Here's how to specify the logging framework it uses, or disable logging entirely... -
Apr 21, 2013
Hibernate Envers - Audit Logging Made Easy
Need to keep a detailed audit trail for your database entities? Hibernate Envers is the way to go! -
Apr 1, 2013
Facebook LIKE buttons without the count
Facebook seems to really want you to show the number of LIKEs whenever you use one of their buttons on your site. Here's a good hack around that...