Conor Dobbs

I build small developer tools — cron monitoring and webhook debugging. Currently shipping CronCanary. I write up what I learn here.

Joined on May 24, 2026 https://croncanary.dev/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=profile&utm_campaign=bio

Conor Dobbs

Jun 11

Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup. Here's the Developer's Read.

#ai #programming #startup #productivity

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 7

Resend vs Postmark vs SendGrid — three production accounts later

#email #webdev #saas #devops

3 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 7

PostHog vs Plausible vs Fathom — which analytics tool to run for your SaaS in 2026

#saas #analytics #webdev #indiehackers

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 6

Migrating from Go to Rust: The Tradeoffs Worth Knowing First

#rust #go #programming #backend

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 6

Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 6

LLM Smells: The Tells in AI Writing, and the Costlier Ones in AI Code

#ai #llm #codereview #webdev

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 5

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years: Why the Skill Doesn't Expire

#sql #database #career #webdev

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 5

Is MCP Dead? When the Model Context Protocol Earns Its Complexity

#mcp #ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 5

Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You

#postgres #backend #database #webdev

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 4

Defender zero-days CVE-2026-41091 and 45498 — what defenders should do today (May 2026)

#security #cybersec #devops #opensource

6 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 4

Cloudflare vs Vercel for a SaaS in 2026 — which one I actually picked

#cloudflare #vercel #webdev #saas

4 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 4

Claude Code's hidden config: what the docs don't tell you (and what to ignore)

#claudecode #ai #productivity #devtools

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 3

What the ChatGPT for Sheets data-exfiltration bug teaches about AI security

#security #ai #webdev

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 2

The 6 security headers that change your grade (and how to check yours in 10 seconds)

#websecurity #webdev #security #devops

4 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 2

the ai cybersecurity hype is real, and so is the gap between the deck and the deployment

#cybersecurity #ai #soc #career

6 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 2

Three places your Claude Code bill leaks (and how to plug them)

#ai #llm #productivity #devtools

4 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 1

Cursor vs Claude Code vs Aider — which AI coding tool actually saves time

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 1

Astro vs Next.js vs SvelteKit for content sites in 2026

#astro #nextjs #svelte #webdev

4 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 1

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCP

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Conor Dobbs

Jun 1

The cron job that failed silently for three weeks (and the dead-man's-switch I built after)

#showdev #devops #monitoring #webdev

3 min read

Conor Dobbs

May 31

Debugging webhooks without print statements: I built RequestTrace on Cloudflare Workers

#showdev #api #serverless #tooling

2 min read

Conor Dobbs

May 24

I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.

#architecture #automation #claude #googlecloud

7 min read

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Writing Debut

Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup. Here's the Developer's Read.

Resend vs Postmark vs SendGrid — three production accounts later

PostHog vs Plausible vs Fathom — which analytics tool to run for your SaaS in 2026

Migrating from Go to Rust: The Tradeoffs Worth Knowing First

Microsoft pulled internal Claude Code licenses — what their engineers' preference tells you about picking AI tools

LLM Smells: The Tells in AI Writing, and the Costlier Ones in AI Code

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years: Why the Skill Doesn't Expire

Is MCP Dead? When the Model Context Protocol Earns Its Complexity

Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You

Defender zero-days CVE-2026-41091 and 45498 — what defenders should do today (May 2026)

Cloudflare vs Vercel for a SaaS in 2026 — which one I actually picked

Claude Code's hidden config: what the docs don't tell you (and what to ignore)

What the ChatGPT for Sheets data-exfiltration bug teaches about AI security

The 6 security headers that change your grade (and how to check yours in 10 seconds)

the ai cybersecurity hype is real, and so is the gap between the deck and the deployment

Three places your Claude Code bill leaks (and how to plug them)

Cursor vs Claude Code vs Aider — which AI coding tool actually saves time

Astro vs Next.js vs SvelteKit for content sites in 2026

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCP

The cron job that failed silently for three weeks (and the dead-man's-switch I built after)

Debugging webhooks without print statements: I built RequestTrace on Cloudflare Workers

I Automated My Entire Digital Product Business on a $13/Month GCP VM. Here's the Architecture.