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Neon Database Branching Saved Me 200 EUR Every Month
I run 14 Neon database branches per project for the price of one Postgres instance Neon copy-on-write branching clones a 12 GB database in under...
5 Vercel Edge Config Patterns I Use For Shopify A/B Tests
Edge Config reads in ~15ms at the edge, no cold start, no extra request to Shopify I cut a 50 EUR/month LaunchDarkly bill to 0...
The 6 Vite Plugins That Replaced My Webpack Config
I cut 11 Webpack plugins down to 6 Vite plugins and dev startup dropped from 4.2s to 0.8s vite-plugin-checker runs TypeScript and ESLint in a...
Microsoft Agent 365 Launches With Claude Inside: What It Means
Microsoft Agent 365 launches today, May 1, 2026, as the enterprise control plane for autonomous agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork brings autonomous multi-step task...
Magnific vs Topaz vs Krea: Which AI Upscaler Actually Works
Topaz wins on photo fidelity for portraits, product shots, and any source where the original detail must survive Magnific wins on creative invention, where you...
Freepik Just Rebranded as Magnific: What Changes for Solo Creators
Freepik renamed itself to Magnific on April 28, 2026, unifying its asset library, upscaler, and 40+ AI models under one brand The company hit 230M...
Anthropic Now Owns 40% Of Enterprise LLM Spend (And What That Means For Solo Builders)
Anthropic now captures 40% of enterprise LLM API spend, OpenAI dropped to 27% from 50% in 2023, per April 2026 industry analysis Google committed up...
Claude Code's /recap and 1-Hour Caching: April's Quiet Productivity Update
Claude Code's April update added /recap, 1-hour prompt caching, forced 5-minute caching, and 500K-character MCP tool output, none of which made the marketing rounds /recap...
Project Glasswing: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Cybersecurity Bet
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a defensive cybersecurity program built on Claude Mythos Preview, now in restricted partner-only access Founding partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco,...
5 Cloudflare Workers Patterns I Use for Shopify Edge Logic
5 production Cloudflare Workers patterns for Shopify backends: A/B testing, geo banners, signed customer URLs, AI personalization, webhook buffer queues.
Bun's Test Runner Replaced Vitest in My New Projects
Bun's built-in test runner runs 5-15x faster than Vitest, ships zero-config snapshots and coverage. Migration in 30 minutes, where Vitest still wins.
CSS Anchor Positioning Is Production-Ready: 5 Patterns
5 production CSS Anchor Positioning patterns: tooltips, dropdowns, inline edit popovers, context menus, follow-cursor labels. When to pick it over Floating UI.