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EU Reverse-Charge VAT for Solo SaaS Buyers: The Zero-Euro Math Most Devs Miss
Reverse-charge means you self-account VAT on foreign SaaS and deduct it in the same return, so the net…
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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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CSS :has() in Production: 6 Selectors That Replaced JavaScript Across My Sites
Six :has() selectors deleted roughly 240 lines of JS across my sites
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ElevenLabs Studio Workflow: 4 Patterns for 12-Minute Solo Episodes
4 ElevenLabs Studio patterns for producing 12-minute solo episodes, with cost-per-episode and time-to-publish numbers.
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5 agent-browser Workflows That Replaced My Manual Daily Checks
5 agent-browser workflows that replaced manual daily checks and paid SaaS, with command snippets and weekly time saved.
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Why I Standardized on Phosphor Icons Across 15 Repos (And Cut 60% of Icon Bundle Size)
Five icon systems across 15 repos created visual drift and 84KB bundles in the worst Next.js app.
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30 Days With the Magnific Image Pipeline: What Stuck and What Got Killed
Spaces replaced three separate tools in my image pipeline and cut context switching to near zero.
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View Transitions API: 5 Patterns I Use Across RAXXO Sites in 2026
Same-document transitions wrap state changes like filter chips and tab switches in a single startViewTransition call.
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Shopify Metaobjects Schema Patterns: 5 Real-World Models
FAQ entries with question, answer, category, and rank fields drive a single accordion section across the whole store
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Wiring Magnific Images Into a Vercel Edge Config A/B Test
Generated 3 hero variants in Magnific in under 4 minutes for the same prompt seed
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The Claude Cowork Plugin Ecosystem: 6 Plugins I'd Install on Day One
Cowork plugins extend Anthropic's collab product with finance templates, ticket triage, Notion sync, Stripe dashboards, GitHub PR review,…
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SQLite is Enough: 5 RAXXO Services I Moved Off Postgres
Moved 5 RAXXO services off Postgres + Neon to SQLite + better-sqlite3 in WAL mode
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Claude Webhooks: 4 Production Patterns for Agent-Driven External Alerts
Claude Webhooks shipped public beta on May 6 2026 for Managed Agents, sending HTTP POSTs when an agent…