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The Changelog Habit That Keeps Five RAXXO Tools Honest
The one-line-before-merge rule that catches feature drift early and turns a free tool's changelog into a trust signal…
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
90 entries · latest 2026-09-11
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Why Anthropic Just Endorsed a Plan to Pace AI
Anthropic and OpenAI both endorsed the Pacing the Frontier letter this week, tied to Claude authoring over 80%…
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How I Decide What to Build Next at a One-Person Studio
The one-sentence filter that decides which ideas earn a build slot and which ones get cut before I…
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Why RAXXO Studios Sells Both Merch and Terminal Tools
Why one solo studio runs a merch catalog and five developer tools from the same storefront, and how…
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How I Turn One Hour Into a Month of Daily AI Video Shorts
Inside the four-stage pipeline that keeps two AI-driven video channels posting daily without a camera, a crew, or…
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The Design System That Makes Five RAXXO Tools Feel Like One Studio
How one small set of design rules keeps five different RAXXO tools looking and feeling like a single…
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The Four-Pass Check I Run Before Calling Anything Shipped
The same four-pass check, cold-open, edge-input, break-it, plain-language, that every RAXXO tool passes before I call it finished.
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Why I Keep Shipping Small Tools Instead of One Big Product
Why I build five focused tools instead of one sprawling product, and what Git Dojo, OhNine, and Statusline…
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The Solo Studio Stack: What I Pay For and What I Self-Host
Subscriptions I keep pay back 5-10 hours weekly, self-host handles predictable batch work
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The 5 Metrics I Check Weekly and the Ones I Ignore
Weekly review runs under 10 minutes with 5 tracked numbers
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Pricing a Digital Product as a Solo Studio
Three-question framework: floor, ceiling, anchor before any product ships
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What 18 Months of Daily Shipping Taught Me About Consistency
Shipped daily for 18 months, missed 11 days total