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Claude Sonnet 5.5 Ships Faster and Breaks Five Things
Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5.5 at the same price as Sonnet 5, but five breaking changes and a sixth…
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Claude Code 2.1.285: What allowedProviders Actually Locks Down
Claude Code 2.1.285 shipped September 29 with a desktop flag, plugin config, and a provider lockdown most solo builders can skip.
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: What Changed on September 1
Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1. Here is what actually changes for Claude Code…
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Claude Code Auto Mode Becomes the Default on August 14
Auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code on August 14. What actually changes, what the classifier blocks,…
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Claude Opus 5 Is Here: Fable 5 Intelligence at Half the Price
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, a step-change model with a 1M context window at half…
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Claude Security: Anthropic's New Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic shipped Claude Security in beta, a multi-agent scanner that turns vulnerability findings into reviewed patches inside Claude…
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Claude Blueprint: Why I Packaged 33 Days Into One Install
Claude Blueprint packages a full Claude Code setup, a CLAUDE.md template, 6 commands, 6 skills, and 3 hooks,…
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OhNine: Why I Built a Menu Bar App for Claude Limits
OhNine is a free menu bar app that tracks Claude session and weekly usage limits and warns you…
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Statusline Builder: Why I Give a Tool Away Free
Statusline Builder configures a Claude Code statusline with 33 elements, free forever. Here is why I built it…
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Claude Code Screen Reader Mode: Accessibility in the Terminal
Claude Code's new screen reader mode swaps boxes and spinners for plain, linear text. Why accessibility in a…
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The Claude Code Features I Started Using This Month
1M context Opus replaced my manual file-pasting ritual entirely
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Headless Claude Code: 5 Things I Run From My GitHub Actions
Claude Code -p runs headless in CI with zero terminal