AI

Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

ego lite lets your AI agent use every login you own

The ego lite browser for AI agents gives each agent an isolated Space that inherits your real logins. The project ships the skill, not the browser.

Coding

Superpowers stops your AI from coding until you talk

The Superpowers skills framework for coding agents blocks the first line of code until you agree a spec and a plan. See what that discipline costs.

Postgres 18 can replace Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

Postgres 18 plus a few extensions can replace Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Pinecone. A tour of the features, benchmarks, and limits.

Alibaba's code reviewer finds fewer bugs on purpose

Alibaba Open Code Review trades recall for precision, using roughly a ninth of the tokens a general agent burns. See what that trade really costs you.

Self-hosting

Openship deploys your apps and holds your Docker socket

Openship self-hosted deployment platform gives you push-to-deploy, TLS, and backups on your own box. The API container mounts the host Docker socket.

VLESS Reality still works where Hysteria 2 gets blocked

VLESS Reality vs Hysteria 2 on stealth, speed, and blocking. Reality survives networks that kill UDP; Hysteria 2 wins on lossy, congested links.

Debug 90% of Linux network faults with three commands

Debug Linux network issues with ss, nftables, and tcpdump. Inspect sockets, trace firewall rules, and capture packets to diagnose connectivity.

Smart home

A $60 ESPHome build shuts your water off in seconds

Build a smart water leak detection system with ESPHome and a motorized shut-off valve. Ties into Home Assistant and costs far less than commercial.

Home Assistant 2026.1 adds Matter devices with no phone

Home Assistant 2026.1 lifts Matter and Thread into Settings and adds devices from the web UI, with a new matter.js server for Matter 1.4 coverage.

A $9 chip with RuView can hear you breathe through a wall

RuView WiFi sensing turns a $9 ESP32 into a presence and vital signs sensor for Home Assistant. See which accuracy claims it actually measured.

Web dev

Build a serverless API on SQLite with Cloudflare D1

Cloudflare D1 makes SQLite serverless at the edge. Covers Wrangler setup, building a CRUD REST API in a Worker, and the real 2026 free-tier limits.

Impeccable names the 59 tells of AI-made web design

Impeccable design detector rules name 59 tells of AI-made frontends. I ran the scanner: 41 rules fire on source files, 50 on a real browser render.

Hallmark spends 67 KB of rules to avoid AI design slop

The Hallmark design skill for Claude Code fights AI-looking layouts with a 67 KB rule file, 20 themes, and 58 gates. Here is what that buys and costs.

WebMCP runs on my blog while Apple fights the whole idea

WebMCP lets a web page register tools that AI agents call in the browser. Chrome ships it in origin trial, Apple opposes it, botmonster.com runs 7.

HTTP/3 is faster, but not on every network you test

What QUIC fixes over TCP+TLS, how to enable HTTP/3 in Nginx and Caddy, and how to measure real gains. Includes honest cases where HTTP/3 doesn't help.

Hardware

The hall effect keyboards worth buying for gaming in 2026

Hall effect keyboards dominate competitive gaming. Compares Wooting 80HE, Razer Huntsman V3 Pro, and Keychron Q1 HE on specs, Linux, and legality.