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5 Figma Plugins AI Still Cannot Replace in 2026
Five Figma plugins that still beat AI in 2026: Stark, Tokens Studio, Autoflow, Design Lint, Figmotion. A craft argument from a 20-year visual designer.
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 your first in under 20 lines, and...
MCP Servers Are How Claude Actually Talks to Everything
MCP servers expose tools, resources, and prompts to Claude through a tiny JSON-RPC protocol. Five MCP servers I run daily: GitHub, a scoped Filesystem, Playwright,...
I Built 3 Production Agents With the Claude Agent SDK in One Weekend
Shipped 3 production agents in one weekend using the Claude Agent SDK, each under 50 lines of glue code. Blog syndication agent cross-posts to Dev.to...
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 Ran a seven-hour debug across Shopify, Vercel, and...
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 manual maintenance per week. Concrete vercel.json +...
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. Why the move, how I ported 600...
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.
Shopify Section Schema Patterns Editors Actually Love
Range inputs with step 2 and sensible min/max stopped merchant emails about broken spacing on my Shopify theme. Conditional blocks plus block-level max settings keep...
The 4-Tier Dark Mode Color System I Use on Every Project
Dark mode breaks when you use pure black #000 and pure white #fff, so I build every UI on a 4-tier system with #1f1f21 as...
Stripe Projects Changes Solo Maker Economics
Stripe Projects lets solo makers collect real payments without forming a company, cutting setup time from weeks to minutes. I used to need a GmbH,...
How I Run a 15-Repo Studio From One CLAUDE.md File
I run a 15-repo AI creative studio with one CLAUDE.md file as the brain, not 15 different configs|The top-level CLAUDE.md covers rules, brand voice, folder...