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February 27, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Bots Are Quietly Destroying Your Email Deliverability

Every verification email your system sends to an address that did not ask for it is a small bet against your sender reputation. At the scale bots operate today, with automated traffic now exceeding 51% of all web activity, those bets add up fast. Bot deterrence is not optional.

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February 24, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Setting Up Claude Code Agent Teams on macOS

Agent teams let you break work into focused tasks where each teammate gets a fresh context window dedicated to its piece of the problem. This guide walks through the full setup on macOS, from enabling the feature flag to managing your first multi-agent session with tmux.

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February 24, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

AI Agent Platforms Compared: From Enterprise to Self-Hosted

Your team built an AI agent. It works in a demo. Now someone asks: where does it actually run? A new category of product has emerged to solve this: agent platforms. Think of them as fleet management software for AI agents. This post compares the major options and how to choose.

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February 19, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Why Every SaaS Needs a Backup Payment Gateway

If your entire SaaS revenue flows through a single payment gateway and that gateway freezes your account, your cash flow drops to zero overnight. It happens more often than you think. Here is how to build redundancy into your payment stack before you need it.

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February 15, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Effort Estimation Strategies in 2026: What Actually Works

After years of planning poker and story points, many teams are questioning whether traditional estimation methods actually deliver value. Here’s a practical look at estimation strategies that work in 2026, from time-tested techniques to emerging AI approaches.

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February 10, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Token Guard: Keeping Your Agent Context Lean in CI

Token Guard is a GitHub Action that counts tokens in your agent context files and enforces limits in CI. Here’s why we check agent context into our repos, and why keeping it lean matters for team collaboration.

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