Notes & blogs.

Apple wants every app to expose its features through App Intents so Siri can call them. The technical work is fine. The unwritten part of the contract is what should make every developer pause.

Why Nous Research's Hermes Agent quietly built everything OpenClaw promised — a self-improving agent that runs anywhere, talks on any platform, and migrates your old config in one command.

Running Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek locally on Apple Silicon for coding, and the math on when it's actually cheaper than Claude or GPT.

How AI search ate the world's largest programming community and why nothing replaced what we lost.

Vercel is wonderful until your free tier ends and your bill is $400 for a side project with 12,000 monthly users. The math, the Hetzner vs Hostinger comparison, and when each one actually wins.

The Expo Modules API replaced 80% of the reasons you used to "eject." Swift and Kotlin DSLs, type-safe TS bindings, no codegen YAML. Here's what writing one actually feels like.

The New Architecture is default. Bridgeless mode shipped. Hermes is the only engine that matters. Here's what it actually means for shipping apps in 2026.

After six months running both side by side as my daily driver, here's the honest breakdown of where Cursor wins, where Claude Code wins, and why I keep both installed.