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Cursor's Pricing Train-Wreck: What the Hell Happened?

If you blinked last week, you probably missed Cursor lighting its reputation on fire. I'm writing this mainly to vent, but also to figure out how a tool I loved managed to shoot itself in both feet. ...

A Type-Safe, Lightweight i18n System in TypeScript

While working on bitmenu and adding i18n I though I'd write an entry about how I like to handle translations in TypeScript projects. The common i18n pattern (and why I hate it) It's quite common to ...

Vibecoding: why Claude Code is the wrong approach

The promise vs. reality In the last couple of weeks I've been using Claude Code extensively, both at work and for my own side projects. And while in the beginning the results looked impressive, I'm no...

What's Up with tRPC?

It seems that [tRPC](https://trpc.io/) has been getting quite popular these days, and while writing code for it is quite nice, it doesn’t seem to fix that many problems and just overcomplicates the p...

Python’s ecosystem is a mess

So, yesterday I tried to set up SDXL to experiment with various UIs and models since I've been out of the loop there for a bit and got super frustrated at how hard it is to just run some Python code ...