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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...