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The 5 Vercel Cron Jobs That Keep My Studio Running
Five Vercel cron jobs replaced a 6 EUR VPS, a flaky GitHub Actions workflow, and 40 minutes of manual maintenance per week. Concrete vercel.json +...
The CSS :has() Patterns That Changed How I Write UI
Six concrete CSS :has() patterns that replaced roughly 400 lines of JavaScript across raxxo.shop.
Shopify Section Schema Patterns Editors Actually Love
Range inputs with step 2 and sensible min/max stopped merchant emails about broken spacing on my Shopify theme. Conditional blocks plus block-level max settings keep...
The 4-Tier Dark Mode Color System I Use on Every Project
Dark mode breaks when you use pure black #000 and pure white #fff, so I build every UI on a 4-tier system with #1f1f21 as...
How I Run a 15-Repo Studio From One CLAUDE.md File
I run a 15-repo AI creative studio with one CLAUDE.md file as the brain, not 15 different configs|The top-level CLAUDE.md covers rules, brand voice, folder...
CSS Cascade Layers Finally Made My Design System Predictable
CSS Cascade Layers (@layer) let you control the order of style precedence without specificity wars or !important tags My design system has three layers in...
The 6 Git Hooks I Copy Into Every New Repo
Every new repo I start gets the same six git hooks copied in before the first commit lands Pre-commit lint and type-check runs catch noisy...
First-Party Analytics Without Google: The 2026 Stack
Google Analytics is slow, privacy-hostile, and reports fewer visitors than reality due to ad-blockers First-party analytics in 2026 means lightweight scripts, no cookies, and server-side...
Running LLM Evals in Production: The 2026 Guide
Most LLM apps ship with zero evals because engineers confuse demos with quality Three eval types matter: regression, rubric-based, and live production sampling LLM-as-judge works...
Shopify Metaobjects Killed My Headless CMS in One Saturday
Metaobjects are native Shopify content types, free on every plan, addressable from Liquid without extra API calls Moved 120 entries out of Contentful in 4...
Vibe Coding Just Graduated From Joke to Job Title
Andrej Karpathy coined vibe coding 14 months ago. Now Anthropic ships a design tool, Claude Builder, and proof that it works at production scale.
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 Both models get replaced by their 4.6 versions with 1M context,...