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Build a Magnific to Shopify Image Pipeline in 5 Minutes
Generate a 4096px hero in Magnific in under a minute
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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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Solo Studio Bookkeeping in 90 Minutes a Month: My Stack and Routine
My bookkeeping stack costs 30 EUR a month and runs on four tools.
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5 Type Scales I Use in 2026 (And the One I Quietly Dropped)
Major-third 1.250 stays my default for product UI because it scales without drama
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Server-Sent Events Beat WebSockets for 80% of My AI Streaming UIs: 5 Patterns
Server-Sent Events handle 80% of AI streaming UIs with one HTTP connection and zero WebSocket overhead. 5 production…
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Claude Security Goes Public Beta: Repo Scanning, Vuln Explainer, Patch Guidance
Claude Security entered public beta on May 2026, scanning repos and explaining vulnerabilities for Claude Enterprise customers only
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Claude Connectors Now Reach Into Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Affinity, And Fusion
Claude Connectors now hook into Adobe, Blender, Ableton Live, Affinity, and Autodesk Fusion via MCP. Real workflow tests…
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PostHog Error Tracking Killed My Sentry Bill
Sentry cost me 80 EUR/month for ~12k errors that PostHog now catches on the free tier
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Shopify Functions Replaced 8 Apps In One Saturday
Cancelled 8 paid apps in one Saturday and dropped 180 EUR/month off the app bill to zero recurring…
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Bun Shell Replaced Every Bash Script in My Studio
I deleted 1,400 lines of bash and 23 scripts, replaced by 600 lines of Bun Shell TypeScript
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Neon Database Branching Saved Me 200 EUR Every Month
I run 14 Neon database branches per project for the price of one Postgres instance
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5 Vercel Edge Config Patterns I Use For Shopify A/B Tests
Edge Config reads in ~15ms at the edge, no cold start, no extra request to Shopify
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The 6 Vite Plugins That Replaced My Webpack Config
I cut 11 Webpack plugins down to 6 Vite plugins and dev startup dropped from 4.2s to 0.8s