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Dev notes, TILs, reflections. In English.

JUN2026

Fable 5 and Mythos 5: what it means when a government shuts down a model already on the market

On June 12, 2026, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 days after launch. This isn't a news footnote — it's a precedent.

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JUN2026

Personal

I Built an Agent to Predict My Son's Final Exam Topics (This Year It's My Topolone's Turn)

My oldest has his Italian final exams in a few days, and I had become an unbearable parent about it. So instead of hovering over him, I did the sensible thing: built an agent on Opus 4.8 that reads half the internet and spits out a probability table for the two written exams.

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JUN2026

Dev

Hermes and OpenClaw: The Local AI Hype, Explained by Someone Who Actually Uses Them

Over the past few months these two names have been everywhere in self-hosted AI communities. They're often compared as if they were the same thing. They're not.

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MAY2026

Personal

The Second Brain. Why Your First One Isn't Enough Anymore

This isn't an article about Obsidian. It's an article about how many good ideas you've lost because you never wrote them down anywhere.

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MAY2026

Dev

From Prompting to Context: The Paradigm Shift Most People Haven't Noticed Yet

Many still think AI means writing better prompts or chatting with ChatGPT. In 2026, with agents, the real skill is something else: designing the context.

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MAY2026

Dev

Why I fell in love with Hono

Express built my foundation. Fastify amazed me. Then I tried Hono and never looked back. Here's why.

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APR2026

Dev

Serverless: How it Changed Deployment (Forever)

Before serverless, deploying meant managing servers, processes, and uptime. Today, it means pushing code and forgetting the rest. Here's what really changed.

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APR2026

Dev

WordPress is Not Dead. But Core Web Vitals are Condemning it

4-second LCP, layout shifts everywhere, shivering TTFB. I stopped defending WordPress when I saw the numbers compared to a headless stack.

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APR2026

Dev

Web Components: Why Lit is the Right Framework

Web Components have been around for years but never quite took off. With Lit, finally, using them makes sense — even in production.

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