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Designing AI Thumbnails: 6 Layout Rules That Survive 1024x576 Crops
AI image models love the center, so design your thumbnails around that bias instead of fighting it
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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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4 Berlin Tech Meetups Worth Your Tuesday Night in 2026
Berlin AI/ML Meetup runs deep technical talks in Mitte coworking spaces, best for hires and peer learning
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Shopify Checkout Extensibility: 4 UI Extension Patterns I Shipped This Month
Post-purchase upsell with BlockStack on the thank-you page added 11% to AOV in 3 weeks of testing
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Multi-Agent in Practice: A 5-Agent Claude Pipeline That Ships a Blog Post End-to-End
A real 5-agent Claude pipeline that takes a topic from RSS to a scheduled blog post on raxxo.shop,…
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Replacing Lodash with Native ES2026: groupBy, fromAsync, toReversed, and 5 More
Lodash adds about 70KB minified, ES2026 covers most utility uses with zero dependencies
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Motion Design Tokens That Actually Compose: Durations, Easings, Choreography
Three-tier motion tokens: primitives like --ms-200 and --ease-out-expo feed semantic and component layers, never the other way around
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Claude Code /goal and Agent View: 5 Solo-Studio Wins
Claude Code v2.1.139 added /goal, which sets a completion condition and keeps the agent working across turns until…
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From Notion to Shopify Pages via API: A 50-Line Sync Script
A 50-line TypeScript script syncs Notion database pages to Shopify Pages via the Admin REST API
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Why I Doubled My Product Prices and Lost Zero Customers
Doubled Blueprint from 19 EUR to 33 EUR and FULLMOON from 29 EUR to 49 EUR with zero…
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Effect-TS in Production: 4 Patterns I Use Across Shopify Backends
Effect-TS replaced try/catch and ad-hoc retries across 3 Shopify backends and cut error-handling code by roughly 40 percent
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Theme App Extensions vs Section Schemas in 2026: When to Pick Which
Theme App Extensions ship blocks across many themes via the App Store, ideal for distributed apps with version…