zach.codes

Replacing Developer Docs with Claude’s Plugin Marketplace

We don’t need developer documentation anymore, and you’ll be more productive than ever 🤯

Oct 14 • 

Zach Silveira

September 2025

From $3K/Month to $0: Why We Ditched Auth0 and Built Our Own Authentication

Finally had an excuse to do it: kill our Auth0 subscription ✅

Sep 3 • 

Zach Silveira

August 2025

From Subreddits to Speech: A Reddit Engineer's AI Side Project

Discussing the intersection of voice agents and AI with Ryan and Marcus.

Aug 20 • 

Zach Silveira

, 

Ryan Castner

, and 

Marcus Wood

49:29

Fake It Till You Make It: Blockchain Apps Aren't Actually Decentralized

I've been deep in the crypto rabbit hole... between the massive IPOs, projects raising quarter-billion rounds, and an idea that's been keeping me up at…

Aug 5 • 

Zach Silveira

From Biology To Vibe Coding

We meet with a PhD candidate in Biology to hear how they're coding

Aug 1 • 

Zach Silveira

 and 

Reinier Suarez

2

43:04

July 2025

Context Engineering & ToolFront

If you want to pull information from databases using natural language, this is the episode for you.

Jul 22 • 

Zach Silveira

38:32

Every AI-Powered Development Environment I Could Find

There’s too many to keep track of 😆

Jul 18 • 

Zach Silveira

Agentic Coding with Ryan Castner

Ryan joins to discuss his LLM usage after a quick discussion on an upcoming hackathon

Jul 15 • 

Zach Silveira

 and 

Ryan Castner

1

56:20

Bulletproof Docker Releases with Automated Migration Testing

Test migrations and block releasing if your next release isn't compatible

Jul 10 • 

Zach Silveira

I Used GitHub Copilot+ For a Week

A very quick look at Copilot Agent and the ways I used it

Jul 3 • 

Zach Silveira

1

June 2025

First Look: Gemini CLI vs Claude Code

I'm using this over Claude Code to save 💵 next month

Jun 26 • 

Zach Silveira

1

AI Podcasters Review My Book 🤯

Listen now | NotebookLM is pretty incredible at turning different content into interactive podcasts, today they discuss the model context protocol and…

Jun 24 • 

Zach Silveira

5

2

13:06