We all understand that free services from a company that is spending billions on computing power won't remain free. It's inevitable. But the reality is we are all already using Codex. OpenAI recently announced that Codex was made available in ChatGPT for free, but access was limited. At the moment, developers can use code completions, refactorings, or generate entire functions without spending any
macOS tar destroys files on Linux: I validated it in my real Railway pipeline and documented the 3 cases nobody mentions There's a Hacker News thread that resurfaced this week with 107 points about a 2024 article: tar on macOS creates archives that Linux can't extract cleanly. The community reacted the way it always does — "use GNU tar", "install gtar with Homebrew", "this has been known for yea
Tar en macOS destroza archivos en Linux: lo validé en mi pipeline real de Railway y documenté los 3 casos que nadie menciona Hay un hilo en Hacker News que resurfaceó esta semana con 107 puntos sobre un artículo de 2024: tar en macOS crea archivos que Linux no puede extraer limpiamente. La comunidad reaccionó como siempre: "usá GNU tar", "instalá gtar con homebrew", "esto es conocido desde hace
Book: TypeScript Essentials — From Working Developer to Confident TS, Across Node, Bun, Deno, and the Browser Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub A team I talked to had a service that crashed roughly twice Cannot read properties of u
When you automate backups, you eventually discover the backup was not the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. This week I got a nice little reminder from my self-hosted agent setup: the backup job can be logically correct, authenticated, scheduled, and still fail because of two very boring constraints: Docker-owned files are not always readable by the user running cron. GitHub Relea
Book: TypeScript Essentials — From Working Developer to Confident TS, Across Node, Bun, Deno, and the Browser Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You add a new status to your app. The string "archived" goes Two days later a teammate
Picture this: it's 1:47 AM. Your phone buzzes. It's your team lead. The helpful little agent you spun up last quarter to "handle Tier 1 support tickets" has just confidently emailed 47 customers confirming refunds it has no authority to issue. None of the refunds are real. The numbers are hallucinated. Support Slack is on fire. You stare at the ceiling and ask the only question that matters: Who
Most dev teams I've worked with communicate updates through a Slack message or a Notion doc that clients never open. Stack: Next.js 14 App Router Supabase (auth + DB + RLS) Tiptap (rich text editor) Tailwind CSS + shadcn/ui The cherry on top was the bug that kept me up at night. Tiptap's getHTML() was saving content to Supabase as escaped HTML entities, so <strong> became <strong> and render