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Updates, engineering insights, and the story behind Specific.
How to Run Temporal Locally
Three ways to run a Temporal server for local development, from temporal server start-dev to a zero-setup environment with persistence, the Web UI, and env wiring included.
What Is Durable Execution?
Durable execution makes code survive crashes, restarts, and outages by recording every step and resuming exactly where it left off. How it works, when to use it, and how to try it.
Build with Specific: Linear-style Task Board
Build a Linear-style task board from scratch using nothing but Claude Code prompts — frontend, backend, database, auth, real-time sync, file storage, and background jobs.
