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Claude Fable 5 Explained — vs Opus and Sonnet, and What Changed in Claude Code
Anthropic shipped its first public Mythos-class model. Risky questions get handed to Opus 4.8 instead of refused; Claude Code gained /goal. Double the price, 30% more tokens —…
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What Is a Schema — Why Databases and Your Brain Use the Same Word
A schema is a frame that defines what shape data should take — a table blueprint in databases, the structure of knowledge in psychology. The frame must exist…
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How to Pick Open-Source Tools by Fit — I Skipped an 84k-Star One
I weighed four similar tools and picked one. I dropped an 84k-star tool, and I trusted a license badge and got it wrong. Stars, badges, an AI’s first…
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I Built a Blog Publishing Skill — and This Post Is Its First Output
Publishing a post took 11 manual steps. So I built a tool to do it in one shot — and learned that building is easy, shipping is hard.…
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Yak Shaving, Idempotency, Dogfooding, Dead Man’s Switch — 4 Dev Terms That Work Outside Code
Yak shaving, idempotency, dogfooding — three dev terms that work outside code. Getting lured into side-quests, repeating an action safely, and using your own thing before shipping.
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No Open Ports — Reaching My Server from Anywhere with Tailscale
How to securely reach your home server from anywhere. A self-hosting guide using Tailscale to bundle your own devices into one encrypted private network and connect remote desktop…
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The Link That Won’t Tap — Opening Obsidian Notes From Telegram
Send an Obsidian note link (obsidian://) over Telegram and it won’t tap, because chat apps don’t turn custom schemes into links. How to work around it by inserting…
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A Hands-Off Server — The Small cron Automations That Keep It Running
cron is the built-in Linux scheduler that runs commands at set times. The chores our server handles every day, and three traps beginners always hit (empty PATH, silent…
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My Notes on My Server — Self-Hosting Obsidian LiveSync + CouchDB
Obsidian’s official Sync is a monthly fee. Sync notes to CouchDB on your own server for $0 plus data ownership. Why never to expose CouchDB on 0.0.0.0, and…
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Backing Up to a NAS Every Night — tar+ssh (and Why Not rsync)
Self-hosting without backups is a time bomb. A nightly cron tars a folder and ships it to a NAS over ssh. Why we skipped the rsync daemon (port…