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Why I Run Claude Code Plugins for Brand Voice Enforcement
A brand-voice plugin catches em-dashes and banned words before publish, not after Plugins run on hooks automatically, skills wait until you ask My checker blocks...
Opus 4.8 vs Sonnet vs Haiku: How I Route Work in 2026
Which Claude model for which job in 2026, with Opus 4.8's flat price, cheaper Fast mode, and abstention as the deciding factors. My routing table.
Opus 4.8 in Practice: A Real Coding Session
A field report from one real agentic coding session on Opus 4.8: where it asked instead of guessing, caught its own bug, and held the...
Claude Code Hooks I Ship in Every Project: 6 Patterns
Brand-check hook catches forbidden words before they reach a draft Spacing and font hooks fix layout drift across 40+ templates A11y and SEO hooks block...
Claude Opus 4.8 Is Here: Everything That Changed
Claude Opus 4.8 landed May 28 with a 4x drop in unremarked code bugs, a 3x cheaper Fast mode, Dynamic Workflows, and the same price...
5 MCP Servers I Built This Year and What They Replaced
Built 5 MCP servers in 2026, retired 4 daemons and a Zapier flow Catalog and blog-index MCPs saved roughly 9 hours per week Render-queue MCP...
Claude Opus 4.7 in My Solo Studio: 6 Workflows That Justify the Tier
Opus 4.7 with 1M context lets me refactor 47 files in one prompt, no chunking, no lost thread Multi-agent orchestration runs 4 parallel drafts in...
Claude Security Update: Scans, Webhooks, 6 Partners
Claude Security left its launch behind with scheduled scans, directory targeting, and CSV or Markdown exports. Slack and Jira webhooks plus dismissals that stick turn...
Claude's Big May: Limit Reset, Code w/ Claude, Small Business
Claude's viral May 2026: a surprise rate-limit reset, the Code w/ Claude half-the-room moment, and Claude for Small Business.
Claude's Next Model: Sonnet 4.8 and Mythos Rumors, Sorted
Claude Opus 4.7 is the shipping flagship while Sonnet 4.8 and Mythos stay rumored. I sort confirmed Anthropic facts from leak-blog noise.
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.
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.