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Claude Opus 5 Benchmarks: What the Numbers Actually Show
Opus 5 posts 79.2 on SWE-bench Pro against Opus 4.8 at 69.2. What the launch ratios mean, and…
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
469 entries · latest 2026-10-22
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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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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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Claude Voice Mode Now Runs on Opus and Sonnet
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode with Opus and Sonnet, mid-call model switching, and real actions in Gmail, Calendar,…
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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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RAXXO Studio: Turning One Video Into Three Platforms
Why one caption pasted everywhere underperforms, and what building a platform-aware caption tool taught me.
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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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Why I Built Git Dojo Instead of Another Git GUI
Git Dojo teaches git through real terminal commands, not menus. Why I built it that way and what…
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The AI Week: Kimi K3 Tops the Code Arena, Gemini 3.5 Slips
Kimi K3 topped a coding arena, Gemini 3.5 Pro slipped, and OpenAI shipped GPT-Live. A builder's read on…
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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…