Writing about frontend systems, AI engineering, developer tools, and useful technology.https://kahwee.com/en-usSun, 06 Sep 2026 23:17:57 GMThttps://kahwee.com/2026/what-to-learn-from-wordpress/https://kahwee.com/2026/what-to-learn-from-wordpress/The WP Engine fight, the Valkey fork, and agent-written code raise a harder question: what keeps an open-source project honest?Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTopen-sourceaicorporate-strategyweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2026/cubbly-lcp-waterfall/https://kahwee.com/2026/cubbly-lcp-waterfall/Removing SSR simplified Cubbly but delayed useful inventory. I compared four client-loading compositions and kept the one that made real route content 31–42% faster.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:22:01 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentperformancereactvitecloudflarehttps://kahwee.com/2026/cubbly-one-vite-pipeline-cloudflare-worker-ssr/https://kahwee.com/2026/cubbly-one-vite-pipeline-cloudflare-worker-ssr/I removed React SSR from Cubbly because maintaining Lingui across the Worker and browser was not worth the speed it bought on a private application.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentbuild-toolcloudflarevitereactperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2026/five-things-learned-running-hermes-agent-automations/https://kahwee.com/2026/five-things-learned-running-hermes-agent-automations/I use Hermes Agent to interpret and configure automations, then let Home Assistant or a script execute repeatable actions with visible failure states.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:30:00 GMTapplied-ai-systemshermes-agentautomationhome-assistantsecurityhttps://kahwee.com/2026/ai-pricing-is-becoming-ux/https://kahwee.com/2026/ai-pricing-is-becoming-ux/GPT-5.6 turns capability into a price ladder, while Codex Spark turns speed into a separate button. AI pricing is becoming part of the interface.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMTaicodingdeveloper-toolchatgptcodexsoftware-engineeringhttps://kahwee.com/2026/migrating-tanstack-table-v8-to-v9/https://kahwee.com/2026/migrating-tanstack-table-v8-to-v9/I wanted to keep a shared table component current without accepting migration work on faith. A side-by-side benchmark made the trade-off much easier to judge.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentreactperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2026/react-router-v8-upgrade-cost-benefits/https://kahwee.com/2026/react-router-v8-upgrade-cost-benefits/React Router v8 keeps the framework-mode API familiar and moves v7's future flags into defaults. That restraint matters after an expensive v6-to-v7 migration.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentperformancevitehttps://kahwee.com/2026/claude-guardrails-end-at-claude/https://kahwee.com/2026/claude-guardrails-end-at-claude/Closed-model guardrails remain tied to the provider, even as comparable open weights spread. Public safety needs controls that survive that reality.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMTaianthropicclaudeopen-sourcecorporate-strategyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/ai-code-quality-is-changing/https://kahwee.com/2026/ai-code-quality-is-changing/Models make awkward code cheaper to replace. Review should block future risk and leave private ideas of neat to automated conventions.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMTaicodingsoftware-engineeringclaudeopenaihttps://kahwee.com/2026/grok-from-tesla-to-coding-agent/https://kahwee.com/2026/grok-from-tesla-to-coding-agent/Grok Build produces useful patches, but its weekly limit changes how I use it. The harness and quota now matter more than the model.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMTaiai-tooltechnologysoftware-engineeringweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2026/claude-code-what-i-actually-use/https://kahwee.com/2026/claude-code-what-i-actually-use/Claude Code lowers the cost of being a Rust beginner. It kept two local-hardware projects moving while I learned the language inside them.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMTaiclaudeai-toolsoftware-engineeringweb-developmenttechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/static-blog-cloudflare-stack/https://kahwee.com/2026/static-blog-cloudflare-stack/I keep changing this blog. One small Cloudflare Worker lets the URLs survive the changes while the site itself stays static.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:30:00 GMTweb-developmentcloudflareperformancestatic-site-generatortechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/glm-opencode-harness-gap/https://kahwee.com/2026/glm-opencode-harness-gap/GLM costs a fraction of Opus per token. OpenCode's Plan/Build toggle doesn't cut that cost back down — it just moves it.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:05:00 GMTaiclaudehttps://kahwee.com/2026/ai-budget-pooling-cost-controls/https://kahwee.com/2026/ai-budget-pooling-cost-controls/My company merged separate AI tool budgets into one shared pool. That's when Opus versus GLM stopped being an abstract question.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMTaicorporate-strategyclaudehttps://kahwee.com/2026/thread-fragmentation-mdns/https://kahwee.com/2026/thread-fragmentation-mdns/dns-sd exposes what smart home apps hide: Apple, Amazon, and eero each run separate Thread meshes on the same network, and devices on different meshes route through Wi-Fi instead of communicating directly.Sat, 30 May 2026 16:00:00 GMTtechnologysmart-homethreadmatternetworkinghttps://kahwee.com/2026/home-assistant-light-groups/https://kahwee.com/2026/home-assistant-light-groups/How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.Wed, 27 May 2026 16:00:00 GMTtechnologytutorialhome-assistantsmart-homehttps://kahwee.com/2026/tripsy-mcp-cli/https://kahwee.com/2026/tripsy-mcp-cli/Tripsy released an official CLI and MCP server in May 2026. The CLI is the better tool. Everything I documented for the SQLite approach is now unnecessary.Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyaideveloper-toolclaudehttps://kahwee.com/2026/self-hosting-papra-with-docker-compose/https://kahwee.com/2026/self-hosting-papra-with-docker-compose/Papra looked healthy on my NAS while registration failed. The browser hid the useful detail: SQLite belonged to the wrong user.Mon, 18 May 2026 07:30:00 GMTtechnologytutorialopen-sourceweb-serverhttps://kahwee.com/2026/fitbit-air-sleep-tracker/https://kahwee.com/2026/fitbit-air-sleep-tracker/I ordered a Google Fitbit Air to test whether a lighter band can solve the sleep-data gap my Apple Watch leaves.Sat, 16 May 2026 04:00:00 GMTtechnologywearablegooglepersonalhttps://kahwee.com/2026/hermes-agent-home-assistant-integration/https://kahwee.com/2026/hermes-agent-home-assistant-integration/Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:00:00 GMTapplied-ai-systemshermes-agenthome-assistantsecurityhttps://kahwee.com/2026/hermes-agent-ugreen-nas-docker/https://kahwee.com/2026/hermes-agent-ugreen-nas-docker/UGREEN said my Hermes container was running. The gateway couldn't read its config. Two user IDs explained the failure—and the fix.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:04:36 GMTapplied-ai-systemshermes-agentugreendockersecuritytechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/biome-linting-for-ai-workflows/https://kahwee.com/2026/biome-linting-for-ai-workflows/Biome keeps my AI coding loop moving, but it doesn't replace TypeScript. Here is the current setup and the trade-off I kept.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentdeveloper-toolperformancetypescriptcodingai-toolbuild-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2026/tripsy-sqlite-read-write/https://kahwee.com/2026/tripsy-sqlite-read-write/Tripsy stores all your trip data in a local SQLite file that iCloud syncs to your Mac. The file is already on your disk — no export needed.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:00:00 GMTiostutorialdeveloper-tooltechnologymobile-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2026/why-adobe-animate-flash-bridge-failed/https://kahwee.com/2026/why-adobe-animate-flash-bridge-failed/Adobe Animate kept the Flash timeline alive for HTML5, but the web moved on. Maintenance mode confirms the bridge could not hold.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:00:00 GMTanimationflashweb-historyadobetoolstechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/getting-a-dba-in-san-francisco/https://kahwee.com/2026/getting-a-dba-in-san-francisco/I registered a San Francisco DBA for $236. It took two City Hall stops, one newspaper email, and four weeks of publication.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:00:00 GMTsan-franciscobusinesspersonaltechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2026/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/https://kahwee.com/2026/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/I expected Claude Code plugins to be heavy infrastructure. The frontend-design plugin is mostly Markdown; the marketplace makes it installable and scoped.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMTclaudeai-tooldeveloper-toolweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2026/vite-url-import-jquery/https://kahwee.com/2026/vite-url-import-jquery/In Vite, ?url changes a JavaScript import into an asset URL import. Here is the fix—and when the suffix is actually useful.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:00:00 GMTviteweb-developmentbuild-tooljqueryhttps://kahwee.com/2026/jquery-4-slim-build/https://kahwee.com/2026/jquery-4-slim-build/jQuery 4.0.0 shipped last week. I didn't expect to write about jQuery in 2026. The project has been around since 2006.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:00:00 GMTjavascriptjqueryweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/document-project-quirks/https://kahwee.com/2025/document-project-quirks/I spent 45 minutes teaching Claude a fix I already knew. Putting that project quirk in CLAUDE.md stopped the same rediscovery next time.Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:00:00 GMTclaude-aideveloper-toolsoftware-engineeringai-assistantproductivityaihttps://kahwee.com/2025/tailwind-v4-pnpm-monorepo/https://kahwee.com/2025/tailwind-v4-pnpm-monorepo/Tailwind v4 rendered my shared components without their utility classes. One @source directive fixed three hours of monorepo debugging.Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentbuild-tooldeveloper-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2025/origin-financial-vs-copilot-money-comparison/https://kahwee.com/2025/origin-financial-vs-copilot-money-comparison/I tried Origin as an alternative to Copilot Money. More financial products did not make up for the transaction review it handed back to me.Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMTfinancetechnologypersonalaihttps://kahwee.com/2025/react-router-v7-loaders-vs-react-query/https://kahwee.com/2025/react-router-v7-loaders-vs-react-query/Six months with React Router loaders changed my default. I add React Query only when repeated fetching, shared data, or polling gives me a reason.Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMTreactweb-developmenttechnologyperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2025/october-layoffs-ai-excuse/https://kahwee.com/2025/october-layoffs-ai-excuse/I wrote in June that AI was becoming the new backdoor layoff. Companies would use "AI efficiency gains" as cover for not hiring people back.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:00:00 GMTaicorporate-strategylayoffsworkforcetechnologybusinesshttps://kahwee.com/2025/react-compiler-automatic-memoization/https://kahwee.com/2025/react-compiler-automatic-memoization/React Compiler 1.0 moved routine rendering memoization into the build. React.memo, useCallback, and useMemo now need a specific reason.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:00:00 GMTweb-developmenttechnologybuild-toolperformancereacthttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-native-installation/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-native-installation/My machine has one Claude Code executable and one updater. Here is how I check the path, remove conflicts, and keep it that way.Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTdeveloper-toolclianthropicaihttps://kahwee.com/2025/meta-600-ai-layoffs/https://kahwee.com/2025/meta-600-ai-layoffs/Meta cut 600 AI roles while still hiring for its superintelligence lab. The move shows which AI work leadership wanted to fund—and which it did not.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:30:00 GMTaimetacorporate-strategylayoffstechnologyproduct-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/https://kahwee.com/2025/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/After using Comet for coupons, search, and summaries, I am not convinced putting an agent in the browser solves the hard part: judgment.Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTai-assistantbrowserchatgptopenaiperplexityaihttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-web-and-ios-launch/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-web-and-ios-launch/Claude Code on the web changes coding from an editor interaction into delegated work. That matters more than adding another interface.Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTai-toolclaudeanthropicdeveloper-toolsoftware-engineeringaihttps://kahwee.com/2025/sora-isnt-the-problem/https://kahwee.com/2025/sora-isnt-the-problem/Using Sora in a TikTok-style feed made social media's incentive problem hard to ignore: fabricated video is now cheaper than recording reality.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTaiai-toolsoraopenaisocial-mediavideo-generationdisinformationhttps://kahwee.com/2025/recursion-beats-scale/https://kahwee.com/2025/recursion-beats-scale/Samsung's 7-million-parameter TRM beat much larger models on specific reasoning benchmarks by revising its answer up to 16 times.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTaitechnologylarge-language-modelprivacyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-haiku-4-5/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-haiku-4-5/I use Claude Haiku for small refactors, review, and debugging. Its lower cost and faster responses matter more there than deeper reasoning.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTaiai-toolclaudeanthropiclarge-language-modelcodingpricinghttps://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-declarative-toolbar-placement/https://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-declarative-toolbar-placement/I tested SwiftUI toolbar placement, grouping, search, and overflow on iPhone and iPad. The useful mental model is intent—not fixed screen coordinates.Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMTswiftuiiosmobile-developmenttutorialtechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/understanding-swiftui-tabview/https://kahwee.com/2025/understanding-swiftui-tabview/I rebuilt SwiftUI's TabView examples to separate the iOS 18 navigation APIs from the iOS 26 Liquid Glass redesign—and to see where the system takes control.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMTswiftuiiosmobile-developmenttutorialliquid-glasstechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-accessibility-reduce-motion-voiceover-part-2/https://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-accessibility-reduce-motion-voiceover-part-2/VoiceOver read my compound views as a pile of unrelated elements. Grouping, labels, and combined accessibility testing fixed the experience.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:01:00 GMTmobile-developmenttechnologyswiftuihttps://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-accessibility-reduce-motion-voiceover-part-1/https://kahwee.com/2025/swiftui-accessibility-reduce-motion-voiceover-part-1/The full Liquid Glass effect became distracting while I built with it. Here is how I handled Reduce Motion and Dynamic Type in SwiftUI.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMTmobile-developmenttechnologyswiftuihttps://kahwee.com/2025/cloudflare-workers-redirect/https://kahwee.com/2025/cloudflare-workers-redirect/A small Cloudflare Worker can rewrite /tag/* to /tags/* without changing the main application or dropping query strings.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTcloudflareweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-cloudflare-pages-to-workers/https://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-cloudflare-pages-to-workers/I moved a static site from Cloudflare Pages to Workers in five minutes. The config was easy; deciding whether a static blog benefits is harder.Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTcloudflareweb-developmentperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2025/setting-up-zwave-home-assistant/https://kahwee.com/2025/setting-up-zwave-home-assistant/My working setup for a Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 on a Ugreen NAS, using Docker and Z-Wave JS UI.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMTpersonaltechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/building-modern-full-stack-web-application-part-2/https://kahwee.com/2025/building-modern-full-stack-web-application-part-2/How I deployed the React Router application with Fly.io, Cloudflare, Neon, Docker, and migration history I could roll back.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:01:00 GMTweb-developmentreacttypescriptsoftware-engineeringfly-iocloudflarehttps://kahwee.com/2025/building-modern-full-stack-web-application-part-1/https://kahwee.com/2025/building-modern-full-stack-web-application-part-1/The React Router, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and authentication stack I chose after using LLMs to prototype the alternatives.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentreacttypescriptsoftware-engineeringhttps://kahwee.com/2025/cloudflare-flyio-dns-ssl-troubleshooting/https://kahwee.com/2025/cloudflare-flyio-dns-ssl-troubleshooting/Cloudflare 525 errors on Fly.io usually mean the origin certificate is wrong. Fix the custom domain cert before blaming DNS.Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMTcloudflareweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-remix-to-react-router-v7-part-2/https://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-remix-to-react-router-v7-part-2/The migration took two focused sessions: dependencies first, then 40 files of imports and route types. Typegen was the part worth keeping.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:01:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentreacthttps://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-remix-to-react-router-v7-part-1/https://kahwee.com/2025/migrating-from-remix-to-react-router-v7-part-1/My Remix-to-React Router v7 migration touched 40 files and removed 591 net lines. Imports were easy; TypeScript took the time.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentreacthttps://kahwee.com/2025/cost-of-switching-from-nextjs-to-remix/https://kahwee.com/2025/cost-of-switching-from-nextjs-to-remix/Leaving Next.js for Remix taught me why the annoying-looking use client boundary exists—and what Remix gives up without it.Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentreactperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2025/vercel-promise-vs-reality-emfile-remix/https://kahwee.com/2025/vercel-promise-vs-reality-emfile-remix/My Remix app ran locally and failed on Vercel with EMFILE. The workarounds reduced file churn but could not expose or change the platform limit.Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyweb-developmentperformancedeveloper-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2025/google-ai-overviews-cutting-web-traffic-in-half/https://kahwee.com/2025/google-ai-overviews-cutting-web-traffic-in-half/AI search is turning websites from destinations into raw material. The web may survive that transition, but human voices will be harder to find.Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:00:00 GMTaigooglesearchweb-traffictechnologyuser-experiencehttps://kahwee.com/2025/anthropic-wins-major-fair-use-victory-but-still-liable-for-pirated-books/https://kahwee.com/2025/anthropic-wins-major-fair-use-victory-but-still-liable-for-pirated-books/The court treated AI training as transformative while leaving Anthropic exposed for keeping a library of pirated books.Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:00:00 GMTaicopyrightlegalanthropicfair-usehttps://kahwee.com/2025/when-rebuilding-is-better-than-refactoring/https://kahwee.com/2025/when-rebuilding-is-better-than-refactoring/A new data-model entity touched several old pages. Rebuilding those UI components was faster than carrying their Flow types and old assumptions forward.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 16:00:00 GMTsoftware-engineeringcursoraitypescriptreactweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/ai-the-new-backdoor-layoff/https://kahwee.com/2025/ai-the-new-backdoor-layoff/Companies can shrink teams without announcing layoffs. They call it AI efficiency, lower hiring needs, and let attrition do the rest.Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:00:00 GMTaicorporate-strategylayoffsbusinesstechnologyworkforcehttps://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-node-to-bun-part-2/https://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-node-to-bun-part-2/The package manager was the easy part. File APIs, CI, compatibility checks, and Claude Code produced most of the migration's useful work.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:01:00 GMTtechnologyperformanceweb-developmentbuild-tooltypescripthttps://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-node-to-bun-part-1/https://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-node-to-bun-part-1/Moving this blog from Node.js to Bun cut its build from 37 seconds to 20. Native file and glob APIs also removed code I no longer needed.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyperformanceweb-developmentbuild-tooltypescripthttps://kahwee.com/2025/windsurf-slashes-prices/https://kahwee.com/2025/windsurf-slashes-prices/Windsurf removed flow action credits and cut team pricing while OpenAI acquisition talks were being reported. I cared more about the simpler bill.Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:00:00 GMTaicodingai-toolpricingwindsurfcursorgithub-copilothttps://kahwee.com/2025/figma-trademark-overreach-dev-mode/https://kahwee.com/2025/figma-trademark-overreach-dev-mode/Figma's dispute with Lovable over Dev Mode shows why common developer terms make weak trademarks and costly legal weapons.Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:39:00 GMTtechnologytrademarkfigmalovabledeveloper-toollegalhttps://kahwee.com/2025/openai-playing-catch-up-in-the-ai-coding-wars/https://kahwee.com/2025/openai-playing-catch-up-in-the-ai-coding-wars/OpenAI talked a ~$3B Windsurf deal. I use Claude Code and Cursor; the story that matters is who owns the IDE relationship, not the model API.Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:39:00 GMTtechnologyai-toolweb-developmentopenaimicrosoftwindsurfhttps://kahwee.com/2025/gpt-4-1-swe-improvements/https://kahwee.com/2025/gpt-4-1-swe-improvements/GPT-4.1's benchmark jump showed up in my Windsurf and Cursor use as cleaner diffs and fewer back-and-forth retries.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:00:00 GMTaiopenaicodingbenchmarkwindsurfcursorhttps://kahwee.com/2025/breaking-down-openais-upcoming-model-lineup/https://kahwee.com/2025/breaking-down-openais-upcoming-model-lineup/A leaked OpenAI lineup showed five models, but the mini and nano pricing mattered more to me than another flagship.Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMTaitechnologyopenailarge-language-modelhttps://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-webpack-to-vite-in-2025/https://kahwee.com/2025/switching-from-webpack-to-vite-in-2025/The benchmark gap was obvious, but deleting 90 lines of build configuration was the better reason to choose Vite for a modern app.Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentbuild-toolvitewebpackperformancehttps://kahwee.com/2025/chatgpt-is-going-to-surpass-x/https://kahwee.com/2025/chatgpt-is-going-to-surpass-x/Similarweb March 2025: ChatGPT at 4.55B visits, X at 4.58B. ChatGPT grew faster that month. Infrastructure, not a toy.Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMTaiweb-trafficchatgptxhttps://kahwee.com/2025/github-copilot-upgrade-impact/https://kahwee.com/2025/github-copilot-upgrade-impact/Copilot shipped agent mode and more models. Microsoft also tightened extension licenses so some tools refuse to run in Cursor.Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyaianthropicgithub-copilotcursorsoftware-engineeringai-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2025/on-technological-stratification/https://kahwee.com/2025/on-technological-stratification/AI access is becoming another way to buy time, better service, and economic leverage. My son will grow up inside that divide.Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTaitechnologyuser-experiencepersonalhttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-strengths-and-weaknesses-mar-2025/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-strengths-and-weaknesses-mar-2025/Claude Code for hobby refactors, Cursor at work — two tools, two jobs, and where each one still breaks.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTaiclaudeanthropicsoftware-engineeringcursorai-toolweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-built-this-blog-part-2/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-built-this-blog-part-2/Claude Code helped build the parser, generator, templates, and Cloudflare deployment. Syntax highlighting and timezones took more work.Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:01:00 GMTweb-developmenttechnologyaiclaudetypescriptcloudflaresoftware-engineeringhttps://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-built-this-blog-part-1/https://kahwee.com/2025/claude-code-built-this-blog-part-1/I paid about $10 to see whether Claude Code could scaffold the TypeScript static-site generator behind this blog. Most of its choices held up.Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmenttechnologyaiclaudetypescriptcloudflaresoftware-engineeringhttps://kahwee.com/2025/is-google-lost/https://kahwee.com/2025/is-google-lost/Replacing Assistant with Gemini fits Google's long pattern of abandoning products instead of earning trust through steady maintenance.Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTgoogleaitechnologycorporate-strategyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/open-source-as-a-advantage-in-ai-age/https://kahwee.com/2025/open-source-as-a-advantage-in-ai-age/Public libraries give coding agents examples, documentation, and discussions they can retrieve. Private APIs must supply that context themselves.Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTtechnologyopen-sourceaicursorsoftware-engineeringai-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2025/chrome-just-killed-ublock/https://kahwee.com/2025/chrome-just-killed-ublock/When Chrome began disabling uBlock Origin under Manifest V3, I stopped looking for another extension and moved my browsing to Brave.Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTtechnologybrowserprivacygoogleweb-developmenthttps://kahwee.com/2025/cryptocurrency-atms-claims-vs-reality/https://kahwee.com/2025/cryptocurrency-atms-claims-vs-reality/Bitcoin ATMs charge steep fees and are frequently used in scams. Their placement in vulnerable neighborhoods makes the business model hard to defend.Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTcryptocurrencysan-franciscotechnologyfinancehttps://kahwee.com/2025/lightweight-fast-mobile-first-why-static-blog/https://kahwee.com/2025/lightweight-fast-mobile-first-why-static-blog/A personal blog should be fast on a phone and boring to host — Markdown to static HTML on Cloudflare, no app server.Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmentperformanceclaudecloudflaretechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2025/the-true-cost-of-ai/https://kahwee.com/2025/the-true-cost-of-ai/OpenAI's agent tiers run $2k–$20k a month. That is not 'AI is cheap labor' pricing — it is closer to a contractor line item.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTaiopenaipricingtechnologychatgpthttps://kahwee.com/2025/perplexity-replaces-google-search-and-apple-news-for-me/https://kahwee.com/2025/perplexity-replaces-google-search-and-apple-news-for-me/I use Perplexity for most search and for a daily news skim. Google for the stubborn queries. Apple News lost the paywall fight.Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTaisearchtechnologynewsperplexityai-toolhttps://kahwee.com/2025/a-new-beginning/https://kahwee.com/2025/a-new-beginning/I started writing here again — web development, AI tools I actually run, and what SF startups taught me the expensive way.Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMTpersonaltechnologyweb-developmentsan-franciscohttps://kahwee.com/2017/introduction-to-animate-cc-components/https://kahwee.com/2017/introduction-to-animate-cc-components/Adobe barely documented custom HTML5 components in Animate CC, so I worked backward from its built-in Video component.Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:00:00 GMTtutorialcodingdeveloper-tooltechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2016/thoughts-on-aws-lambda/https://kahwee.com/2016/thoughts-on-aws-lambda/Lambda's clunky deployment process forced me to think small. That constraint led me to better microservices design. Sometimes friction is good.Sun, 04 Sep 2016 16:00:00 GMTsoftware-engineeringtechnologydeveloper-toolpersonalawshttps://kahwee.com/2016/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/https://kahwee.com/2016/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/Microsoft added Ubuntu's Bash to Windows. I tested it for real work and hit some rough edges.Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTdeveloper-tooltutorialtechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2016/how-to-run-php-5-6-with-apache-in-el-capitan/https://kahwee.com/2016/how-to-run-php-5-6-with-apache-in-el-capitan/The Apache module path was the easy-to-miss part of running Homebrew's PHP 5.6 on macOS El Capitan. Here is the full setup.Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTtutorialcodingweb-servertechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2016/why-did-flash-have-to-die/https://kahwee.com/2016/why-did-flash-have-to-die/I worked in advertising as browsers pushed Flash out. The web gained battery life and privacy controls, while ad production got much harder.Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTbrowsersoftware-engineeringtechnologyperformanceprivacyhttps://kahwee.com/2016/learnings-from-cors/https://kahwee.com/2016/learnings-from-cors/CORS failures that look unrelated often come down to request type, duplicate headers, or credentials. Here is how the browser treats each case.Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmenttutorialcodinghttps://kahwee.com/2016/making-wordpress-great-again/https://kahwee.com/2016/making-wordpress-great-again/Ubuntu 16.04 ships with PHP 7, which broke my WordPress. Here's how to upgrade PHP config and point nginx to the new php-fpm socket.Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTtutorialweb-developmentweb-serverhttps://kahwee.com/2016/edge-14-to-be-released-tomorrow/https://kahwee.com/2016/edge-14-to-be-released-tomorrow/Edge 14 hit 460 points on the HTML5 Test. For the first time, Microsoft's browser was competitive with Firefox. Here's what that meant for web standards.Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMTbrowsertechnologynewshttps://kahwee.com/2016/mocha-v3-released/https://kahwee.com/2016/mocha-v3-released/I upgraded two repositories to Mocha v3. The migration was uneventful, and the fixed .only() behavior was reason enough to do it.Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:00:00 GMTdeveloper-toolnewscodingtestingtechnologyhttps://kahwee.com/2016/how-to-make-vary-origin-in-aws-s3/https://kahwee.com/2016/how-to-make-vary-origin-in-aws-s3/The exact S3 CORS configuration I used to make responses vary by origin instead of letting a CDN cache the wrong header.Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:00:00 GMTweb-developmenttutorialcodingawshttps://kahwee.com/2016/using-uglify-s-screw-ie8-option-in-gulp/https://kahwee.com/2016/using-uglify-s-screw-ie8-option-in-gulp/Once I stopped supporting IE8, UglifyJS still emitted compatibility code for it. This Gulp option switched those workarounds off.Fri, 27 May 2016 16:00:00 GMTbuild-tooltutorialperformancecodingtechnology