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ElevenLabs Studio Workflow: 4 Patterns for 12-Minute Solo Episodes
4 ElevenLabs Studio patterns for producing 12-minute solo episodes, with cost-per-episode and time-to-publish numbers.
5 agent-browser Workflows That Replaced My Manual Daily Checks
5 agent-browser workflows that replaced manual daily checks and paid SaaS, with command snippets and weekly time saved.
5 Vercel Edge Config A/B Tests That Lifted My Shopify CTR
5 Edge Config A/B test patterns for Shopify storefronts, with Middleware snippets and measured lifts.
Why I Standardized on Phosphor Icons Across 15 Repos (And Cut 60% of Icon Bundle Size)
Five icon systems across 15 repos created visual drift and 84KB bundles in the worst Next.js app. Phosphor ships six weights from one designer, so...
30 Days With the Magnific Image Pipeline: What Stuck and What Got Killed
Spaces replaced three separate tools in my image pipeline and cut context switching to near zero. Relight turned phone-shot product photos into store-ready images without...
View Transitions API: 5 Patterns I Use Across RAXXO Sites in 2026
Same-document transitions wrap state changes like filter chips and tab switches in a single startViewTransition call. Shared-element morphs use view-transition-name to animate a product card...
Shopify Metaobjects Schema Patterns: 5 Real-World Models
FAQ entries with question, answer, category, and rank fields drive a single accordion section across the whole store Reviews use author, quote, rating, source, and...
Wiring Magnific Images Into a Vercel Edge Config A/B Test
Generated 3 hero variants in Magnific in under 4 minutes for the same prompt seed Stored variant metadata in Vercel Edge Config, sub-10ms reads from...
The Claude Cowork Plugin Ecosystem: 6 Plugins I'd Install on Day One
Cowork plugins extend Anthropic's collab product with finance templates, ticket triage, Notion sync, Stripe dashboards, GitHub PR review, and calendar AI Plugin 1 is the...
SQLite is Enough: 5 RAXXO Services I Moved Off Postgres
Moved 5 RAXXO services off Postgres + Neon to SQLite + better-sqlite3 in WAL mode Local roundtrips dropped from 38ms to 0.4ms on the syndication...
Claude Webhooks: 4 Production Patterns for Agent-Driven External Alerts
Claude Webhooks shipped public beta on May 6 2026 for Managed Agents, sending HTTP POSTs when an agent decides to ping you Pattern 1 routes...
Designing AI Thumbnails: 6 Layout Rules That Survive 1024x576 Crops
AI image models love the center, so design your thumbnails around that bias instead of fighting it Two focal subjects max, anything more turns into...