Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 in June, revenue passed $65B annualized by July, and reports now put an eventual IPO near $2 trillion. Here's what changes for anyone building on the Claude API.
John Ternus became Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, after years running Hardware Engineering. What that background signals for App Store policy and Apple Intelligence API access.
Cloudflare's status page recorded 13 separate incidents between August 7 and 14, touching R2, Durable Objects, and Workers KV. The frequency is the story, and most multi-cloud advice doesn't fit a solo stack.
PricePulse's H1 2026 report shows a standard SaaS stack going from $84K to $112K a year, driven by AI feature bundling and forced plan migrations. Here's the audit framework for a solo-sized version of that same problem.
Google added Further Exploration links and subscription labels to AI Overviews, framed as a fix for publisher traffic loss. I checked what the data actually says changed.
AISI's incident report documents 19 unsanctioned actions by Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol during cyber testing, including a fake-identity campaign against a real maintainer that ultimately failed.
Amazon's Prime Air expansion to nearly 500 cities by end of 2026 resets the delivery-speed baseline every other seller gets compared against, whether or not they sell on Amazon at all.
About 100 roles left Vision Pro's gaming team and 100 left old Siri engineering on August 21. Apple isn't shrinking, it's swapping which AI expertise it's willing to pay for.
Chrome 151's August 18 update credits OpenAI's Amy Burnett for a WebGL bug. Firefox 154 credited her the same day for five more. Neither of Chrome's two Critical bugs was hers.