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Firecrawl is a great tool. I want to say that upfront, because what I'm about to describe isn't really Firecrawl's fault. It's just not what it was built for. I was using it as the data layer behind an AI agent, and the costs kept climbing for a simple reason: every time my agent needed fresh contex
I’ve spent way too many late nights arguing about whether a "legacy" monolith is actually the problem or if we’re just chasing shiny objects. It feels like the industry is finally moving past the "microservices for everything" hype and getting back to strict pragmatism regarding what actually makes
I’ve definitely spent too many late nights hunting bugs in 2,000-line service classes where a "quick fix" to a GET request somehow managed to break the entire database write logic. It’s a nightmare we’ve all seen as projects scale and the "fat service" layer starts to rot. This article walks through
In my last article, I added Flow B to SKILLmama: run /skillmama with no arguments, and it scans your project, finds capability gaps, and asks before it searches. The whole point was to stop the AI from guessing what you need. Then @alexshev left this comment: Having the AI ask first is underrated be
You're building on Cloudflare Workers and you need to write values into a PDF form — an invoice, a contract, a government form. You reach for the thing you used last time: headless Chrome, or a PDF library bundled into a Lambda. On Workers, neither one fits. Chrome won't run in a V8 isolate, and sta
Sending money across borders involves more moving parts than most developers expect. You need to know the live exchange rate before the user confirms. You need to register the recipient correctly. You need to attach their bank account or mobile wallet. You need to trigger the transfer and then track
I recently went down a rabbit hole after hearing how a major bank’s ATM face scanners were defeated by a literal piece of printer paper. It’s a classic example of what happens when we build for the "happy path" instead of the real world. If you’re building biometrics for something like employee cloc
The president has capitalized massively on crypto, according to his 2025 financial disclosure, making it one of his most lucrative business moves.
A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc. is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the market leaders Tether and Circle Internet Group Inc. The token, also known as OUSD, was unveiled by Op
Space agency provides updates on lunar lander missions — and teases a World Cup soccer-ball moonshot. Read More
Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most accuracy-critical, deadline-driven workflows instead — profit and loss (P&L) reconciliation — and cut the work in half. The counterintuitive
Running Windows programs on Linux can be complicated, but pairing Bottles with Wine makes things much easier and more reliable.
Sometimes Google's minimalist approach to Android backfires.
Samsung's Galaxy Glasses aren't supposed to launch until the fall but this may be our best look at them yet.
My notes became my database overnight, and that was enough to make another paid app disappear.
June 30, 2026: Personal finance is now available to ChatGPT Plus customers in the U.S., expanding the feature from OpenAI’s $100/month plan to the $20/month version. Original story from last month is below. OpenAI is catching up with some competitors and offering new personal finance features inside
The US State Department has announced a $10 million bounty for information that may help identify or locate members of two Russian state-backed hacking groups behind a campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp users. Here are the details.
Commodore announced its $499 Callback 8020 flip phone a couple of weeks ago, and apparently people didn't like the price. So now the device has gone up for pre-order as promised, but it starts at $399. That's some magic trick - making the product 20% cheaper before even launching it. Part of this is
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In addition to macOS app support, Google is rolling out two more updates for Gemini Spark. This 24/7 personal agent is available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
