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OhNine: Why I Built a Menu Bar App for Claude Limits
OhNine is a free menu bar app that tracks Claude session and weekly usage limits and warns you before you hit them.
RAXXO Studio: Turning One Video Into Three Platforms
Why one caption pasted everywhere underperforms, and what building a platform-aware caption tool taught me.
Statusline Builder: Why I Give a Tool Away Free
Statusline Builder configures a Claude Code statusline with 33 elements, free forever. Here is why I built it that way.
Why I Built Git Dojo Instead of Another Git GUI
Git Dojo teaches git through real terminal commands, not menus. Why I built it that way and what shipping it taught me.
The AI Week: Kimi K3 Tops the Code Arena, Gemini 3.5 Slips
Kimi K3 topped a coding arena, Gemini 3.5 Pro slipped, and OpenAI shipped GPT-Live. A builder's read on staying model-aware without the churn.
Claude Code Screen Reader Mode: Accessibility in the Terminal
Claude Code's new screen reader mode swaps boxes and spinners for plain, linear text. Why accessibility in a terminal AI tool matters.
Claude Reflect: I Audited How I Actually Use AI
Anthropic's new Reflect dashboard shows how you actually use Claude. I ran it on myself for a week, and story versus record was the real...
Claude Sonnet 5 Is the New Default: What Changed for Coding
Claude Sonnet 5 is the new default on Pro, Team, and Enterprise seats, with 1M-token context and adaptive thinking. How it changes daily coding.
Claude Artifacts Now Call Your MCP Connectors for Live Data
Claude published artifacts can now pull live data through each viewer's own MCP connectors, no backend required. What that changes for builders.
The Micro-Interactions I Add Last That Make a UI Feel Fast
Optimistic UI updates before the server confirms feel instant to users 150ms is my default transition duration for hover and press states Skeleton screens beat...
The Solo Studio Stack: What I Pay For and What I Self-Host
Subscriptions I keep pay back 5-10 hours weekly, self-host handles predictable batch work My line: pay when downtime hurts, self-host when the job runs unattended...
The Blog Post Structure I Use So Readers Actually Finish
Hook in five seconds or readers leave One idea per H2, scannable sub-points Cut any paragraph that repeats the heading A close that earns the...