Thoughts on AI, the tech stack, and the indie hacker journey.
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.
An actively-exploited, pre-auth RCE chain in PaperCut got an emergency patch on August 28, then a second emergency patch hours later after researchers bypassed the first one.
Bun 1.4 shipped on August 19 as the first version of Bun written in Rust instead of Zig. The published benchmarks (5x less idle CPU, 7x faster CI installs) are the boring, verifiable part. The claimed 64-agent, 11-day porting workflow is the part worth reading carefully.
Anthropic's official account announced a permanent 25% increase to Claude Code weekly limits starting September 14. What it didn't lead with: everyone is currently using a temporary 50% boost that expires the same day, which makes the real change a 17% reduction.