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5 MCP Servers I Built This Year and What They Replaced
Built 5 MCP servers in 2026, retired 4 daemons and a Zapier flow
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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 4.7 in My Solo Studio: 6 Workflows That Justify the Tier
Opus 4.7 with 1M context lets me refactor 47 files in one prompt, no chunking, no lost thread
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5 CSS Animations That Needed JavaScript Until 2026
interpolate-size and calc-size finally let a panel transition to height auto with no measuring script.
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CSS Carousels With Zero JavaScript: 5 Patterns
A scroll-snap track plus the new pseudo-elements replaced a 14KB carousel dependency in my UI.
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Claude Security Update: Scans, Webhooks, 6 Partners
Claude Security left its launch behind with scheduled scans, directory targeting, and CSV or Markdown exports.
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The Viral AI Sound: How Creators Score Videos in 2026
Sound is the half of a viral clip nobody credits. The AI music tools that work now, trending…
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Viral AI Photo Trends of 2026 (With the Exact Prompts)
The toy-figure, Chibi, film-look, Y2K and scrapbook AI photo trends of 2026, with the exact prompt templates I…
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Viral AI Video Effects in 2026: How They Are Made
The viral 2026 AI video effects, cakeify, squish, Ghibli, dancing figurines, all run on one image-to-video loop. Here…
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CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: 6 Patterns I Ship in 2026
CSS scroll-driven animations in 2026: 6 copy-paste patterns using animation-timeline scroll() and view(), zero JavaScript.
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Claude's Big May: Limit Reset, Code w/ Claude, Small Business
Claude's viral May 2026: a surprise rate-limit reset, the Code w/ Claude half-the-room moment, and Claude for Small…
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Claude's Next Model: Sonnet 4.8 and Mythos Rumors, Sorted
Claude Opus 4.7 is the shipping flagship while Sonnet 4.8 and Mythos stay rumored. I sort confirmed Anthropic…
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I Replaced ESLint + Prettier with Biome Across 16 Repos: Setup, Wins, and 2 Gotchas
Swapped ESLint plus Prettier for Biome across 16 repos, dropping from 5 dev dependencies to 1