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Building a Skill-Based Agentic Reviewer with Claude Code: A Practical Guide Using Skills.MD, MCP Servers, Tools, and Tasks

In the evolving landscape of agentic AI development in 2026, combining Anthropic’s open Agent Skills standard with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables the creation of highly efficient, portable, and context-aware code reviewers. This article presents a practical, production-ready implementation of a skill-based agentic reviewer tailored for code, pull requests, and technical articles. Leveraging a lightweight SKILL.md file for declarative workflows (with progressive context loading to minim

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The State of CSS Centering in 2026

Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of centering options today in 2026. The State of CSS Centering in 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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AWS Managed Database Observability: Monitoring DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift Beyond CloudWatch

A DynamoDB throttle alarm fires at 2 am. You confirm the spike in CloudWatch, then check ElastiCache in a second dashboard, then Redshift in a third. Cache hit rate dropped, which hammered DynamoDB, which stalled the zero-ETL export. Three services, three dashboards, one cascade you can only trace by hand. This guide maps the specific metrics, alarm thresholds, and configuration steps for each service, and then addresses the observability delta that CloudWatch leaves unresolved: cross-service co

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