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Turn One Blog Post Into a LinkedIn Post, an X Thread, and an IG Carousel
Pull the spine first: one argument, three reshapes, never cross-post
The Lab · Written in the open
Lab.
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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The Solo Studio Software Stack: What I Actually Pay For in 2026
Total stack runs 312 EUR/month across 11 tools
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The Native HTML Dialog Element: 6 Modal Patterns I Ship Without a Library
Native dialog removed a 14KB modal library from 9 sites
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Headless Claude Code: 5 Things I Run From My GitHub Actions
Claude Code -p runs headless in CI with zero terminal
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Why I Stopped Using Cursor for Production Code (And What I Use Now)
Cursor felt fast for prototypes but stalled on real production tasks
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Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro: Who Leads Now?
SWE-Bench Pro: Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3 percent, GPT-5.5 lands 58.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro 54.2
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Claude Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8: Is Double the Price Worth It?
Fable 5 costs 10 dollars per million input tokens against 5 for Opus 4.8, output is 50 vs…
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Claude Fable 5 Is Here: The First Public Mythos-Class Model
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, the first Mythos-class model anyone can use
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From Notion to MCP Server: I Rebuilt 4 Workflows in a Weekend
Migrated 4 of 7 Notion automations to an MCP server in one weekend
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5 Claude API Errors That Cost Me Money (And How I Trapped Them)
Retry storms turned 1 timeout into 340 duplicate calls billed in 90 seconds
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The 1M Context Window vs Prompt Caching: When to Use Which
1M context costs full price on every query, caching cuts repeated tokens to 1/10
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Shopify Admin API From Claude: 5 Patterns I Use Across 15 Repos
Product create via Admin API beats clicking through the dashboard every time