The True Cost of AI
OpenAI's AI agents ($2K-$20K/month) reveal the true cost of AI. See how enterprise pricing offsets past losses and what it means for the market.
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KahWee - Web Development, AI Tools & Tech Trends
Expert takes on AI tools like Claude and Sora, modern web development with React and Vite, and tech trends. By KahWee.
Perplexity replaces Google Search and Apple News for me
Perplexity AI has replaced Google Search and Apple News in my daily routine, solving longstanding frustrations. Its real-time data provides immediate, synthesized answers with transparent source attribution, eliminating endless scrolling through links. The conversational interface naturally handles follow-up queries.
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A New Beginning
My blog returns: Practical insights on web development, tech trends, San Francisco culture, and parenting. Let's reconnect and start talking.
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Building HTML5 Components for Adobe Animate CC
Adobe Animate CC lets you create reusable UI components for HTML5 projects. This sounds great, but Adobe's documentation is sparse. Most of what I learned came from reverse-engineering the built-in...
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AWS Lambda's Bad Interface Is Actually a Feature
2025 Update: Lambda won. Serverless functions are now standard practice, with [Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Functions, and others following AWS's model. The deployment experience improved dramatically...
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows: What Works and What Doesn't
[2025 Update: This was Microsoft's first attempt at Linux compatibility on Windows. What started as "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" became WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and WSL2 in 2019 fixed most...
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Running PHP 5.6 with Apache on El Capitan
MAMP works for quick local PHP development, but it's slow and doesn't match production server environments. macOS El Capitan ships with Apache built-in, so you can build a proper PHP development...
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Why Browsers Killed Flash (And Why Designers Lost Out)
(Disclaimer: I work in the advertising industry which utilize Flash for advertising opportunities.) Chrome made the announcement that coming December, Chrome 55 will disable Flash by default and...
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Understanding CORS: Basic vs. Preflight Requests
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) trips up developers because the rules change based on what kind of request you're making. The browser decides between "simple" requests and "preflight" requests...
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Upgrading WordPress to PHP 7: Configuration Changes
I upgraded my Ubuntu server to 16.04 and WordPress stopped working. The issue: Ubuntu 16.04 ships with PHP 7, and my nginx configuration was still pointing to the old PHP 5 socket path. Ubuntu...
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