I wanted to add live chat to my WordPress sites without loading a 500KB third-party script. So I built my own. GhostChat is an open source embeddable Widget: Vanilla JS, no framework, ~10KB Backend: Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for persistent WebSocket connections Payments: Stripe for the hosted tier Self-hostable: Bring your own Cloudflare account Durable Objects give you stateful serve
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Updated May 2026: Now covers virtual desktop (Spaces) restoration and iCloud sync across multiple Macs, both shipped in ShiftPlus 1.3. TL;DR A complete macOS workspace includes apps, window layouts, browser profiles, virtual desktops, and terminal state. Native macOS saves almost none of it. Most third-party tools cover one slice: Stay and Spencer handle window layouts, Shift handles browser profi
In July 2025, a developer's Claude Code instance hit a recursion loop and burned through 1.67 billion tokens in 5 hours, generating an estimated $16,000 to $50,000 in API charges before anyone noticed. The agent did not crash. It did not throw an error. It just kept calling tools, getting confused, calling more tools, and silently accumulating cost. Old software crashes. LLM agents spend. This is
You're in another app and there's a timer counting down at the top of your phone. You lock the screen and the same timer is sitting there. You swipe down to the Notification Center and it's there too, still ticking. It looks like a notification, but a notification can't tick. That's a Live Activity. It looks like three different surfaces (Dynamic Island, lock-screen banner, Notification Center ent
I kept watching the same thing happen. What I Built It's a 3D interactive sales simulator. I call it a flight simulator for software — except instead of flying a plane, you're walking a non-technical client through the risk inside their own infrastructure. The Map You feed it a simple JSON file describing your client's tech stack. It reads it and instantly draws a floating, 3D web of nodes — s
The Reality Check ClickHouse just dropped a study that every executive should read: LLMs are great at some things, but basing your infrastructure on them? Too much, too soon. They tested five leading models (Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-o3, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the newly released GPT-5) against real observability scenarios. The verdict? We're nowhere near the autonomous operations future Silicon