Astro 6 Is Out and the Rust Compiler Changes the Vibe
Live content collections, a unified runtime, and an experimental Rust compiler. I run this blog on Astro — here's what I'm upgrading and what I'm leaving alone.
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GitHub Copilot Now Does Whole Tasks. Cursor and Windsurf Should Be Worried.
Microsoft turned Copilot into an autonomous task agent — assign it a bug, it spins up a workspace and proposes a fix. That's the exact pitch Cursor and Windsurf have been selling for 18 months. Here's the honest read on the IDE wars.
Design Is the New Edge for Solo Founders (and I'm Bad at It)
AI killed the speed advantage. The new moat is design — which is awkward, because most of us got into this because we hated design. Here's a non-designer's checklist for shipping something that looks like it cost money.
I Audited My SaaS Subscriptions. AI Tools Are Now 60% of My Stack Cost.
Two years ago AI was a rounding error in my budget. Now it's the line item that buys me everything else's lunch. The actual numbers, the cuts, and the rule I use to decide what stays.
90% of Indie Hackers Fail at Distribution, Not Product. Here's the Honest 2026 Twitter Playbook — and Why I'm Doing It Wrong on This Blog Right Now.
The distribution-not-product line is repeated until it loses meaning. The playbook behind it is real, the numbers are public, and I'm violating most of it on this blog. Here's the honest accounting.
KKR Just Stood Up a $10B Neocloud Run by the Ex-AWS CEO. The Indie Inference Floor Just Moved.
Adam Selipsky is running a fresh $10B AI infrastructure company funded by KKR. It's not built for indie devs — but it changes the floor on what hosted inference costs in 2027 in a way that does affect us.
Apple Quietly Outsourced Siri to Gemini. The Honest Read for Indie Apple-Ecosystem Devs.
Apple picked Google's Gemini to power the next Siri. Every blog will frame it as Apple losing the AI race. The contrarian read for indie Apple-ecosystem devs is that this is good news — and here's the App Intents homework you should do this week.
cPanel Has a Critical Auth Bypass Exploited Since February. Read This If You Have Forgotten Infrastructure.
If you have an old WordPress site, an email account, or a side project on shared hosting that you haven't logged into in two years, this CVE is for you. The 30-minute audit is worth doing today.
I Flipped the Astro Rust Compiler Flag on This Blog. Here's the 30-Minute Honest Report.
Astro 6 ships an experimental Rust compiler. I turned it on, timed it, broke one MDX file, and found the actual win — which isn't the speed.