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Shopify Admin API From Claude: 5 Patterns I Use Across 15 Repos
Product create via Admin API beats clicking through the dashboard every time
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
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5 Claude API Errors That Cost Me Money (And How I Trapped Them)
Retry storms turned 1 timeout into 340 duplicate calls billed in 90 seconds Infinite tool loop ran 1,200 iterations before I noticed at 2am Partial stream cleanup stopped half-written DB writes corrupting records Trap every error class with a circuit...
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Claude Files API in Production: 5 Patterns for Document Workflows
Files API replaced my 40KB inline blobs with reusable file IDs across requests
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5 Anthropic Prompt Caching Patterns That Cut My API Bill 70%
System-prompt caching alone cut repeat-call costs by half
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5 Anthropic SDK Streaming Patterns I Use in Production
Token paint with backpressure stops fast streams from crashing slow UIs
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Hono: The Tiny Framework That Runs My Entire Backend
Hono ships under 14KB and runs the same code on Bun, Node, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Edge
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The 1M Context Window Actually Changes How I Code
Loaded my entire 12-repo studio into one session and stopped re-explaining context to the model every hour
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Claude Opus 4.6 vs 4.7: Every Difference Side by Side
Pricing stays identical at 5 USD per million input and 25 USD per million output, 1 million token…
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Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 Retire June 15
Anthropic deprecated claude-opus-4 and claude-sonnet-4 on April 14 with retirement set for June 15
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Shopify April 2026 Breaking Changes: What Developers Must Fix
Shopify now requires expiring offline access tokens for all new public apps as of April 1
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Anthropic's Advisor Strategy: Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
Anthropic's Advisor Strategy lets Sonnet or Haiku consult Opus mid-task, keeping near-Opus quality at executor-level pricing
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Claude Managed Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents at Scale
Managed Agents is Anthropic's new hosted agent infrastructure, now in public beta