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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. Relight turned phone-shot product photos into store-ready images without...
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. Shared-element morphs use view-transition-name to animate a product card...
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 Reviews use author, quote, rating, source, and...
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 Stored variant metadata in Vercel Edge Config, sub-10ms reads from...
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, and calendar AI Plugin 1 is the...
SQLite is Enough: 5 RAXXO Services I Moved Off Postgres
Moved 5 RAXXO services off Postgres + Neon to SQLite + better-sqlite3 in WAL mode Local roundtrips dropped from 38ms to 0.4ms on the syndication...
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 decides to ping you Pattern 1 routes...
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 Two focal subjects max, anything more turns into...
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 WeAreDevelopers Berlin is the biggest crowd, polished talks,...
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 Shipping-step gift-note collector replaced a 19 EUR/month app...
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, no human in the loop until the...
Replacing Lodash with Native ES2026: groupBy, fromAsync, toReversed, and 5 More
Lodash adds about 70KB minified, ES2026 covers most utility uses with zero dependencies Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy replace _.groupBy and ship in every modern runtime Array.fromAsync,...