Claude Haiku 4.5: Cheap and Fast
Haiku 4.5 is $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. It's 3.75x cheaper than Sonnet 4.5, runs in sub-200ms, and handles most development tasks just fine.
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Windsurf Slashes Prices
Windsurf, an AI coding assistant, has dropped its prices, removed confusing flow action credits, and now offers one of the most affordable team plans in the market—just as rumors of a $3B OpenAI acquisition swirl.
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GPT-4.1: SWE-bench Performance
GPT-4.1 beats records on SWE-bench and Aider polyglot diff. See how Windsurf and Cursor integrations deliver smarter coding. Compare latest AI coding performance benchmarks.
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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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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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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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Mocha v3: Major Improvements to the Test Runner
2025 Update: Mocha remains a popular [JavaScript testing framework. While newer tools like Jest and Vitest have emerged, Mocha's flexibility and plugin ecosystem keep it relevant. The `.only()`...
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Setting Up CORS Vary-Origin Headers in AWS S3
When serving files from S3 to multiple domains, you need the `Vary: Origin` header to handle caching correctly. Without it, browsers and CDNs cache the first CORS response and serve it to all...
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Using UglifyJS's screw-ie8 Option in Gulp
By default, UglifyJS writes JavaScript that works around IE 6-8 quirks. If you're building a modern app, those workarounds just add bloat. The `screw-ie8` flag tells UglifyJS to skip those...
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