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Signing in to Plain: a pasted token, or one click with GitHub

Plain's admin has no accounts, no passwords, and no backend of its own — every save is just a commit. Here are the two ways to sign in and publish, and how to set up each one for your own site.

The boring little CMS I always wanted

After years of heavyweight CMS platforms, I moved this blog onto a tiny static CMS an AI built for me in a weekend — no database, no hosting bill, just Markdown files in Git.

The ghost of my old website

After migrating off Jekyll, my new blog kept serving the old one — a leftover PWA service worker, and the tiny self-destruct worker that finally evicted it.

Ben Cera Says His Claude Bill Hit $1M a Month. The Real Story Is in the Margins.

Ben Cera says Polsia paid Anthropic over $1M in a month. Against $4.6-10M ARR that is a negative gross margin — I do the math the viral tweet skips

Paul Graham Says Earning a Billion Is Just Math. So Why Aren't Devs Winning?

PG says a billion is just growth math. From the bootstrapping trenches, the real bottlenecks are owned distribution, taste, and surviving the flat line

From Azure to One VPS: How LLMs Made Migrating My Whole Side-Project Estate a No-Brainer

I moved a dozen side projects off Azure onto one Hetzner VPS with Cloudflare Tunnel, R2, and SES — using an LLM agent to do the grunt work

I Bought a Denon for My Wedding. Twelve Years Later, I Vibe-Coded Its Radio Back to Life.

vTuner's shutdown bricked my 2014 Denon AVR-X3000's internet radio. I vibe-coded a 900-line Go replacement server with Claude Code in two hours

I Built ShellAgent: An Open-Source Terminal Inspired by Claude Code's Leaked Source

I built ShellAgent, a ~1,100-line open-source TypeScript terminal borrowing async generators, streaming tools, and provider swaps from Claude Code's leaked source

Claude Code Internals: An AI-Assisted Analysis of the Leaked Source

I pointed Claude Code at its own leaked source — 512K lines of TypeScript — and found KAIROS, ULTRAPLAN, voice mode, and companion buddies

I Read the Leaked Claude Code Source — Here's What I Found

I dug through Claude Code's leaked source: 512k lines of TypeScript, a custom terminal UI framework, ML-gated permissions, and multi-agent code

Naval Said "Make Your Own App Store" — So I Did

Naval said make your own app store, so I built AppShelf: a zero-dependency PWA app catalog for iPhone and desktop, powered by one JSON file

Hold My Beer — I Vibe-Coded a Piano Game for My Daughter

I vibe-coded PianoFun with Claude Code: a free, open-source falling-note MIDI piano game in vanilla JS my daughter helped design

I Saw Norton Commander on X and Nostalgia Made Me Build It for the Web

A screenshot of Norton Commander on X sent me back to 1995, so I rebuilt it for the browser: vanilla JS, dual panels, F-keys, OPFS, open source

How NestClaw Saves You 50% on Claude Sonnet & Opus with Smart Context Trimming

I built smart context trimming into NestClaw's proxy: it keeps prompts under Claude's 200K token tier, cutting Sonnet and Opus costs up to 62%

Introducing NestClaw Micro Plans — Your Own AI Agent for Under $4

I added Micro Plans to NestClaw: one-time passes from $3.99 that give you your own dedicated AI agent on its own server, live in seconds

Building Career.Coffee: A Job Board for Specialty Coffee Professionals

I'm building Career.Coffee, a job board for specialty coffee pros — 300+ companies, 50+ listings, built in public with AI. Come shape it

Meet Your New AI Study Buddy for Gymi Prep: Introducing Gymivorb.com

I launched Gymivorb.com, a free site of interactive Math and German mini-apps for Swiss Gymi exam prep — every app AI-generated with Codorex

When Apple's Terms & Conditions Ambushed Me on the Toilet

I read an Apple Watch update's Terms & Conditions mid-bathroom break and found three dead MPEG LA links — mpegla.com serving a 500 error

The Internet Is On Fire Today Why So Many Major Services Are Down at the Same Time

Cloudflare, GitLab, Claude, Shopify and LinkedIn all crashed within minutes — my take on why shared infrastructure keeps breaking the web

Introducing Codorex - Vibe Coding for Kids

I built Codorex, where kids describe a game in plain English and Rex the coding dino builds it in seconds — vibe coding, no syntax required

The Best Platforms to Compare AI Model Results in 2025

My guide to five platforms for comparing AI model outputs in 2025 — Share.Sneos.com, Artificial Analysis, LLM-Stats, Vellum, and YourGPT.ai

Introducing Share.Sneos.com: Your Gateway to 2,100+ AI Model Comparisons

I launched the AI Library on share.sneos.com: 2,119 real comparisons of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Mistral across 100 categories

.NET Azure Developer Interview Study Guide - Complete Questions & Answers

Twelve .NET and Azure interview questions with worked answers and code — GC internals, async/await, Azure AD auth, Functions vs WebJobs, HA design

Who Built AI — And What Must We Give Back

AI was built on freely shared human knowledge — I argue we owe reciprocity: open weights, attribution, and public compute as a shared good

Email Security Explained Simply: Lessons from Securing Sneos.com

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC explained with plain postal-mail analogies — what I learned securing email for sneos.com and how the three work together

How I Built a Share Feature That's Driving Our Path to 500 Premium Users: Lessons from Building Sneos.com

How I built Sneos.com's shareable AI comparison URLs with GitHub + VuePress, and the growth playbook aiming for 500 premium users

Automated social media account creation for SaaS: High demand, legal roadblocks

I analyzed why automated social media account creation for SaaS is legally a non-starter, and the compliant setup-assistant business to build instead

A Federated Professional Network

My interactive plan for a federated, user-owned LinkedIn alternative built with Blazor and ActivityPub — the vision, phased build steps, and feature roadmap

Countdown to Superintelligence

I built a live countdown to January 1, 2027, tracking the AI 2027 AGI prediction, plus the Sam Harris and Daniel Kokotajlo podcast on superintelligence

'Vibe-Code Your Way Out: A Hopeful Survival Guide for Software Developers in

After 18 years as a developer, I explain why AI is eating routine coding work and how vibe-coding tiny joyful products became my way through

Sneos.com Major Update: 6 Months of Innovation and Growth

Six months after launching Sneos.com, I recap doubling to six AI models, adding swipe-based mobile chat, a Premium tier, and 3x faster responses

When a Judge Says "I Don't Get Moody on My Period" – Our Startup Adventure

We pitched HappyWifeHappyLife, a period-tracking app for couples, at a Swiss startup weekend — and a judge's fiery Q&A taught us more than winning would have

Sneos Adds DeepSeek V3 and Grok 3 for Premium Users

I added DeepSeek V3 and Grok 3 to Sneos Premium — compare them side by side with GPT-4 and Claude in one multi-chat interface

VanMoof E-bike Launch Countdown

I built a live countdown page for VanMoof's next e-bike reveal on June 11, 2025 — animated timer, particle effects, and an early-access link

Vibe Marketing: Building Hype by Building Fast

How I built a SpaceX Starship countdown page with Claude AI in 10 minutes, shared it at the right moment, and got a 1000% traffic spike

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 — Mission Success · Flight 14 Next

Starship Flight 13 flew on Jul 24, 2026 — all objectives met and, for the first time ever, the ship splashed down intact and floated. Recap plus a standby countdown for Flight 14.

Time That Takes vs Time That Lasts

Exploring Paul Graham's insight about the fundamental difference between time that merely passes and time that actively demands our investment.

How I Improved User Experience with a Floating Dock on Sneos.com

I replaced three chat input fields on Sneos.com with a single floating dock, cutting input friction and clutter on mobile and desktop

Invitation Codes vs. Referral Links for Sneos.com

How I plan to grow Sneos.com: invitation codes for an exclusive beta, then referral links with rewards to scale — and why a hybrid of both wins

Unveiling ProBotly.com

I built ProBotly.com, an AI content detector that combines multiple models for real-time analysis and detailed breakdowns of whether text is human-made

How I Repaired My iPhone Display and Back Glass at the Apple Store for Only 58 CHF

AppleCare+ cut my iPhone display and back glass repair from 565+ CHF to 58 CHF at the Zurich Apple Store — done in about 3 hours

Introducing Sneos.com: Your Multi-Chat AI Assistant

I launched Sneos.com, a multi-chat AI platform that sends one prompt to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and compares their answers side by side

Solutions for Selling and Updating a Private GitHub Repo

Five ways to sell a private GitHub repo and keep buyers updated: sponsorship access, releases, private packages, automated notifications, licensing

The Best of Zürich

My guide to Zürich's highlights: the Altstadt, Lake Zürich, Uetliberg hikes, Kunsthaus art, Bahnhofstrasse shopping and Zürich-West nightlife

nFactorial Incubator 2024 - Finalists

The top 10 finalist projects from nFactorial Incubator 2024 — AI startups like Vcomics, Quant Trader AI and math12.studio, with links to each repo

Welcome Back to AngJobs: Your Gateway to Tech Opportunities

I relaunched AngJobs, my open-source job board of tech roles sourced monthly from Hacker News — US, UK, Europe and remote, editable via GitHub PRs

C++ Test nr.1

An interactive C++ beginner quiz I built into the blog: eight questions with a timer and instant JavaScript grading out of 12 points

C# Test nr.1

Take an interactive C# beginner quiz right on my blog: eight questions on operators, constants, arrays, and async/await, auto-graded with a timer

JavaScript Test nr.1

Take an interactive beginner JavaScript quiz right in the browser: eight questions on operators, const, functions and async/await, with a timer and instant scoring

Rust Test nr.1

Take my interactive Rust beginner quiz: eight questions on variables, functions, Option and clone vs copy, graded in-browser with a timer

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