What we're writing about.
Notes from the studio — development, design, AI, industry shifts, career growth, and life around the team.
Browse the archive.
Homebrew v7 Release Rundown
Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native Mac app, a built-in vulnerability scanner, and installs that run with no network access at all. But the change most developers need to act on is the one that finally retires the Intel Mac. Ten changes, ranked by urgency.
OpenClaw 2.0: The Refactor That Ate the Platform
They set out to clean up the installer and rebuild the browser app. Seven weeks and 16,000 pull requests later, they had a new major version — and one system nobody explained.
Claude Opus 5 Is Here: Frontier-Class Work at Half the Price
Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 nearly matches its top-tier Fable 5 model on coding and knowledge work at half the cost — and it ships at the same price as Opus 4.8.
Scaffold a Laravel package in one command with `laravel package`
Laravel Installer 5.31.0 adds a first-party `laravel package` command that scaffolds a complete, ready-to-develop package from a single line — and it's a clean-room alternative to Spatie's long-standing skeleton.
Kimi K3 Is Here — And It's Chasing the Frontier at a Third of the Price
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever shipped. We break down how it stacks up against the closed US flagships it's chasing — OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — on benchmarks, price, and openness.
Stronger Connections, Better Solutions: Inside Webteractive's 2026 Team Building
The Webteractive crew split into two squads for a six-station amazing race built on this year's theme — where the fastest hands and the tightest teamwork took the crown.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 — Sol, Terra, Luna: Does It Really Stack Up to Claude Fable 5?
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 arrives as a three-tier family — Sol, Terra, Luna — and beats Claude Fable 5 on its headline agentic benchmark, but the verified feedback so far tells a more mixed story.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 with Three New Models: Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family splits into three tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — each priced and tuned for a different job, from heavy-duty coding agents to cheap, high-volume automation.
Fable 5 Is Back — and Sonnet 5 Is the One You'll Reach For
June 30 was a two-headline day for Anthropic: the US cleared Claude Fable 5 to return, and Sonnet 5 shipped the same afternoon. One is the frontier you keep in your back pocket; the other is the near-Opus workhorse you'll actually run all day. Here's how they stack up.
Understanding Nginx: Architecture, Internals, and Configs Beyond the Basics
What Nginx actually is, why its event-driven architecture makes it fast, and the advanced configuration patterns — reverse proxying, load balancing, caching, rate limiting, and API-gateway tricks — that separate a copy-pasted config from one you truly understand.
Are Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Back?
After a US directive pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline on June 12, Claude Mythos 5 has been cleared for return to 100+ critical-infrastructure organizations — and Fable 5 is reportedly on track to follow. Here's what the models are and what's actually happening.
Tailscale: How I Reached My Mac mini Without Exposing a Single Port
Tailscale builds a private, encrypted mesh network between your devices — so you can reach a machine at home from anywhere without port forwarding, a static IP, or opening your firewall.
GPT-5.6 Lands in Preview: Sol, Terra, and Luna
OpenAI is previewing GPT-5.6 as a three-model family — Sol, the new flagship; Terra, a cheaper everyday workhorse; and Luna, a fast budget tier. Sol sets a record on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and edges out Claude Mythos 5. Here's what shipped and how to get it.
Ghostty and libghostty: The Terminal Core Quietly Reshaping the Ecosystem
I went from the stock macOS Terminal, to Ghostty this year, to Supacode this week — and only then realized the last two run on the same engine. Here's the story of Ghostty, libghostty, and why a reusable terminal core matters.
In the Loop, On the Loop, Out of the Loop
The real shift in AI isn't smarter models — it's how much of the work we're willing to hand over. A field guide to the seven ways we work with AI, from basic chat to autonomous agents.
Have a project in mind?
The same team behind these articles builds production platforms every day. Tell us what you're working on.
Let's connect → [email protected]