Lab

Lab

AI tools, creative workflows, developer deep-dives, and behind-the-scenes from RAXXO Studios.

374 articles

Design
RAXXO Studios 8 min

OKLCH-First Color Systems: 5 Patterns and the Wide-Gamut Wins

OKLCH gives you perceptual uniformity, so a 5% lightness change reads as a 5% lightness change at any hue One base color generates a full...

Shopify
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Build a Telegram Alert Bot for Shopify Orders in 30 Lines of TypeScript

A Bun serverless function on Vercel turns Shopify orders/create webhooks into Telegram pings in under 5s HMAC verification with the webhook secret stops random POSTs...

Business
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Solo Studio Invoicing in 2026: Stripe Tax + DATEV Export + USt-VA via API

Stripe Tax handles VAT calculation per customer location automatically across 40+ countries A 50-line Node script exports the monthly DATEV CSV my tax advisor actually...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 9 min

Anthropic's 2026-2027 Compute Map: 5 Deals, 10+ Gigawatts, One Solo-Dev Take

Anthropic stacked five compute deals through May 2026: SpaceX Colossus 1, Amazon, Google plus Broadcom, Microsoft Azure, and Fluidstack Combined headline: 10+ gigawatts on paper,...

Development
RAXXO Studios 8 min

PostHog Cloud EU to Self-Hosted: Cost Math and 4 Gotchas I Hit

PostHog Cloud EU bill crossed 180 EUR/month at ~3M events, so I migrated to a self-hosted Hetzner box for 42 EUR/month. Cost crossover sits near...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Claude Just Shipped Finance Agent Templates: Pitches, Valuations, and Month-End Close

Anthropic shipped ready-to-run Claude agent templates for finance teams covering pitch decks, valuation reviews, and month-end close Templates install as plugins in Cowork or Claude...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Anthropic + SpaceX Colossus 1: 300MW, 220K GPUs, and Doubled Claude Limits

Anthropic doubled Claude Code five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise on May 6, 2026 Peak-hours throttling is gone for Pro and Max,...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Claude Managed Agents Just Got Dreams, 20-Way Parallelism, and Self-Checking Loops

Claude Managed Agents now ship Dreaming, a memory consolidator that learns from session logs without overwriting your data Multi-agent orchestration runs up to 20 specialized...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Shopify Section Rendering API: 6 Patterns That Cut Storefront TTFB by 60%

Cart drawer refresh swaps one section in 180ms instead of reloading the full PDP at 1.2s. Filtered collection grids return only the product list, cutting...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Replacing Webpack DevServer With Bun Hot Reload: 14 Lines, 3.2x Faster

Webpack DevServer ate 250MB and took 4.1s to start 14 lines of Bun replaced it with WebSocket HMR Cold start dropped from 4.1s to 1.3s,...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Why I Ship Blog Articles in Clusters of 3 (Not Daily)

Daily blogging burns you out and scatters topical authority across unrelated posts. A cluster of 3 means one theme, three angles, published in one or...

AI Tools
RAXXO Studios 8 min

Build a Magnific to Shopify Image Pipeline in 5 Minutes

Generate a 4096px hero in Magnific in under a minute Resize to four responsive variants with a six-line bash script Push every variant to Shopify...