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Hi, I'm Lukas.
This is my personal space. I build products on my own and write about what I learn along the way. When something's worth sharing, it ends up here.
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SnapStudio
LiveA design studio for social content, layers, brand kits and templates, built so an AI agent can drive it directly through MCP.
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Triathlify
LiveAn AI coach that builds your triathlon training plan and rewrites it every week based on what you actually did, not what the calendar said you'd do.
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What I've been digging into
Every so often I pick a handful of topics and go deep instead of skimming everything. Here's what's had my attention lately.
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China's Open Models Now Out-Download America's 2 to 1. Here's Which One a Solo Stack Should Actually Route To.
Qwen, GLM, Kimi, and DeepSeek now hold roughly double the Hugging Face downloads and nearly double the benchmark scores of Llama and gpt-oss. That's a stack decision, not a headline.
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Claude Code Was Silently Skipping Your AGENTS.md the Whole Time You Had Telemetry Off
A remote feature flag has been gating a purely local file read in Claude Code since 2.1.277. Turn off telemetry and the agent quietly stops reading your AGENTS.md, no warning given.
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Google Shipped Gemini 3.8 TTS With 2,000+ Voices. Here's What It Actually Costs to Add Voice to a Solo Product.
Gemini 3.8's new TTS models top the Hume AI Voice Design Benchmark and clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio. The API is live today. The pricing page is not.
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Someone Rebuilt TypeSafe AI's Jev in 25 Lines of Local Python
Days after we covered Jev's per-token pricing, a parody post reimplemented its core mechanism locally in 25 lines, no API key, no training pipeline, no per-token bill.
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WordPress Core Had an Unauthenticated RCE. Attackers Started Probing Within Hours of the Patch.
CVE-2026-87902 sits in WordPress core itself, not a plugin, and it needs no login. WordPress 7.1.2 fixes it. Here's exactly what to check today.
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