Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's push to break up Google's ad exchange, but ordered it to stop giving its own exchange guaranteed bidding advantages. Here's what that could mean for small publishers, and why nothing changes yet.
Wordfence disclosed a critical, unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in the Hummingbird Performance plugin on September 5. Here's how the bug works and why the boring plugins in your stack deserve more scrutiny than they get.
Martian launched AI Frontier on September 5, benchmarking 44 LLMs on quality, cost, and consistency and arguing multi-model routing beats picking one model. Here's why that number needs an asterisk before you build around it.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and 33 other publishers are suing Anthropic for up to $150,000 per song, and naming the CEO as an individual defendant. Here's what that kind of vendor exposure means if your product is built on someone else's model.
Fable 5.1 hard-rejects tool_choice: any and named-tool forcing with a 400 error, on every account, no exceptions. If your agent code depends on the old forced-tool-call pattern, it's already broken and you probably haven't noticed yet.
MAI-Transcribe-2 launched at $0.10 per audio hour on September 3, down from $0.36 for the previous model, and it's not a permanent price. If your product's COGS assumes the old rate, you're either overcharging customers or about to get undercut.
GitHub shipped three npm publishing changes on September 3, and buried in the boring infrastructure news is a real deadline: bypass-2FA tokens lose the ability to publish directly around January 2027.
The Stop Rogue AI Act, introduced September 3, would have NIST write the first national rulebook for deploying AI agents. It's voluntary for most companies and mandatory for federal contractors, which makes it a preview, not a rule you can ignore.
Tesla started paid rides in steering-wheel-free Cybercabs in Austin on September 3. NHTSA opened a formal investigation into Tesla's own self-certification process the next morning, not just the vehicle's behavior on the road.