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I Built 3 Production Agents With the Claude Agent SDK in One Weekend
Shipped 3 production agents in one weekend using the Claude Agent SDK, each under 50 lines of glue code. Blog syndication agent cross-posts to Dev.to...
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 Ran a seven-hour debug across Shopify, Vercel, and...
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 +...
Why I Replaced Notion With 40 Markdown Files
After five years of paying for Notion, I moved my entire studio to 40 markdown files in git. Why the move, how I ported 600...
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...
Stripe Projects Changes Solo Maker Economics
Stripe Projects lets solo makers collect real payments without forming a company, cutting setup time from weeks to minutes. I used to need a GmbH,...
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...
Merch Design That Actually Sells: 5 Case Studies
The best-selling RAXXO merch designs all share three traits: specific audience, one clear message, high-contrast typography Generic inspiration quotes and vague "creative" designs sell the...