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Claude's 200+ Connectors Changed How I Use AI
Claude's connector directory crossed 200+ one-click integrations in April 2026, up from 50 in February I tested 12 connectors over a weekend and replaced five...
Astro 5 vs Next.js for Marketing Sites: I Migrated 3 Projects
Next.js dev server cold start hit 14 seconds on a static portfolio, that was the breaking point. Bundle dropped from 187 KB to 9 KB...
Resend vs Postmark: 30 Days With Each For Transactional Email
Resend with React Email shipped in 18 minutes, Postmark took 41 minutes plus DMARC tweaks Resend hit 99.7% Gmail placement on 4,212 sends, Postmark hit...
The 8 Drizzle ORM Patterns I Use in Every Shopify Backend
Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects. Type-safe joins with the relations API and partial selects shaved 380ms...
Claude Code 2.1.118 Adds Vim Mode, /theme, And Hook MCP
Vim visual mode lands in Claude Code 2.1.118 with v and V selection, plus full operator support over highlighted ranges. /usage replaces /cost and /stats...
Claude Code Ultraplan: Plan in the Cloud, Run Anywhere
Claude Code Ultraplan drafts plans in the cloud, lets you review them in a web editor, then runs anywhere. The Monitor tool streams background events...
Anthropic Confirms Claude Code Was Broken For 7 Weeks
March 4 default reasoning dropped from high to medium for latency, hurt coding accuracy on real tasks March 26 bug made Claude Code discard its...
Shopify Theme Performance: From 62 to 98 Lighthouse in One Weekend
I took raxxo.shop from a 62 Lighthouse mobile score to 98 without leaving the Liquid theme, and this is the exact punch list. The biggest...
Tailwind v4 Theme: Design Tokens That Actually Scale
Tailwind v4 ships a native @theme directive that replaces tailwind.config.js and makes design tokens first-class CSS. Tokens live in one file, ship as CSS custom...
The 7 Postgres Indexes That Took My API From 400ms to 40ms
I took one of my APIs from 400ms p95 to 40ms p95 by fixing 7 missing or wrong Postgres indexes. Most of my slow queries...
Hono: The Tiny Framework That Runs My Entire Backend
Hono ships under 14KB and runs the same code on Bun, Node, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Edge Cold starts dropped from 380ms on Express...
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 faster. When I still reach for Node.