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Bun 1.2 Replaced Node in Every New RAXXO Project
Why Bun 1.2 became the default runtime for 17 RAXXO projects: 3s installs, 9 fewer devDependencies, tests 8x…
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
52 entries · latest 2026-07-25
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The 9 Claude Code Hooks That Audit Every File I Write
How 9 shell-script hooks replace code review in a solo studio: what each one catches, how to write…
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MCP Servers Are How Claude Actually Talks to Everything
MCP servers expose tools, resources, and prompts to Claude through a tiny JSON-RPC protocol.
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The 1M Context Window Actually Changes How I Code
Loaded my entire 12-repo studio into one session and stopped re-explaining context to the model every hour
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The 5 Vercel Cron Jobs That Keep My Studio Running
Five Vercel cron jobs replaced a 6 EUR VPS, a flaky GitHub Actions workflow, and 40 minutes of…
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Why I Replaced Notion With 40 Markdown Files
After five years of paying for Notion, I moved my entire studio to 40 markdown files in git.…
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The CSS :has() Patterns That Changed How I Write UI
Six concrete CSS :has() patterns that replaced roughly 400 lines of JavaScript across raxxo.shop.
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CSS Cascade Layers Finally Made My Design System Predictable
CSS Cascade Layers (@layer) let you control the order of style precedence without specificity wars or !important tags
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The 6 Git Hooks I Copy Into Every New Repo
Every new repo I start gets the same six git hooks copied in before the first commit lands
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First-Party Analytics Without Google: The 2026 Stack
Google Analytics is slow, privacy-hostile, and reports fewer visitors than reality due to ad-blockers
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Running LLM Evals in Production: The 2026 Guide
Most LLM apps ship with zero evals because engineers confuse demos with quality
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Claude Code Desktop Is Now a Full Coding IDE
Anthropic rebuilt Claude Code desktop with parallel sessions, integrated terminal, side chat, and three view modes. It replaced…