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Microsoft Agent 365 Launches With Claude Inside: What It Means
Microsoft Agent 365 launches today, May 1, 2026, as the enterprise control plane for autonomous agents inside Microsoft…
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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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Magnific vs Topaz vs Krea: Which AI Upscaler Actually Works
Topaz wins on photo fidelity for portraits, product shots, and any source where the original detail must survive
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Freepik Just Rebranded as Magnific: What Changes for Solo Creators
Freepik renamed itself to Magnific on April 28, 2026, unifying its asset library, upscaler, and 40+ AI models…
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Anthropic Now Owns 40% Of Enterprise LLM Spend (And What That Means For Solo Builders)
Anthropic now captures 40% of enterprise LLM API spend, OpenAI dropped to 27% from 50% in 2023, per…
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Claude Code's /recap and 1-Hour Caching: April's Quiet Productivity Update
Claude Code's April update added /recap, 1-hour prompt caching, forced 5-minute caching, and 500K-character MCP tool output, none…
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Project Glasswing: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Cybersecurity Bet
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a defensive cybersecurity program built on Claude Mythos Preview, now in restricted partner-only access
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5 Cloudflare Workers Patterns I Use for Shopify Edge Logic
5 production Cloudflare Workers patterns for Shopify backends: A/B testing, geo banners, signed customer URLs, AI personalization, webhook…
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Bun's Test Runner Replaced Vitest in My New Projects
Bun's built-in test runner runs 5-15x faster than Vitest, ships zero-config snapshots and coverage. Migration in 30 minutes,…
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CSS Anchor Positioning Is Production-Ready: 5 Patterns
5 production CSS Anchor Positioning patterns: tooltips, dropdowns, inline edit popovers, context menus, follow-cursor labels. When to pick…
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TypeScript Decorators Finally Shipped: What Changed in 2026
Stage 3 decorators in TypeScript 5+ are stable in 2026. Migration from legacy, 5 production patterns, and where…
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The 5 Postgres Extensions Every Shopify Backend Needs
pg_cron, pgvector, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw. The five extensions that turn generic Postgres into a Shopify-aware database.
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CSS Subgrid Made My Dashboard Layouts Trivial: 5 Patterns
5 production CSS Subgrid patterns for dashboards, forms, articles, and tables. When to reach for Subgrid vs grid-template-areas…