Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
Uber is laying off 3,300 people, about 10% of its workforce, and cutting management headcount by 20%, despite revenue still growing 12% year over year. The layer it cut first is the same one solo consultants increasingly compete against.
Wan3.0 turns a slide deck into a 30-second video and costs $0.05 to $0.20 per second, minus a launch discount that expires September 23. Here's the math before you build a pricing page around a promo.
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets big Claude customers store retention logs themselves instead of trusting Anthropic. If you're building solo on the API, the 30-day retention rule from June still applies to you, unchanged.
Apple replaced the per-install Core Technology Fee with a flat 5% commission, effective October 1. The real news for a solo iOS developer is who now qualifies for alternative distribution, and it isn't you.
Copilot Business and Enterprise seats got three months of bonus AI credits to soften the move to usage-based billing. That padding expired September 1, and the September invoice is the first real one.
A #1 Product of the Day launch produced thousands of visitors and single-digit conversions for at least one founder this year. Reddit and Indie Hackers threads are reportedly converting at multiples of that rate.
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.