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Aug 12, 2026Essay

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.

Jul 29, 2026Field note

Models make awkward code cheaper to replace. Review should block future risk and leave private ideas of neat to automated conventions.

Apr 22, 2026Data note

AI writes code faster than you can review it. ESLint validates slower than it needs to. Biome fixes the mismatch.

Oct 15, 2025Data note

I use Claude Haiku for small refactors, review, and debugging. Its lower cost and faster responses matter more there than deeper reasoning.

Apr 24, 2025Data note

Windsurf removed flow action credits and cut team pricing while OpenAI acquisition talks were being reported. I cared more about the simpler bill.

Apr 14, 2025Watch + read

GPT-4.1's benchmark jump showed up in my Windsurf and Cursor use as cleaner diffs and fewer back-and-forth retries.

Feb 14, 2017Visual note

Adobe barely documented custom HTML5 components in Animate CC, so I worked backward from its built-in Video component.

Aug 11, 2016Technical guide

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.

Aug 5, 2016Technical guide

CORS failures that look unrelated often come down to request type, duplicate headers, or credentials. Here is how the browser treats each case.

Jul 22, 2016Technical guide

I upgraded two repositories to Mocha v3. The migration was uneventful, and the fixed .only() behavior was reason enough to do it.

Jun 12, 2016Technical guide

The exact S3 CORS configuration I used to make responses vary by origin instead of letting a CDN cache the wrong header.

May 27, 2016Technical guide

Once I stopped supporting IE8, UglifyJS still emitted compatibility code for it. This Gulp option switched those workarounds off.