The models were never the magic
Mathias Biilmann says the price of intelligence finally matters. I went one step further: the model stopped mattering entirely. The difference was always in the harness.
Hi, I'm Alex.
Dad. Husband. Proud servant of two cats. By day, I craft web experiences. By night, I craft more web experiences. Weekends? Bold of you to assume I stop.
I run FreshJuice, a dev studio for teams who want fast, modern web. All juice, no pulp. 🍊
I've spent 15+ years building for companies like Iru, Orange Marketing, Kandji, Trovata, and DataFox. When I'm not coding, I'm probably traveling, playing video games, or being bossed around by cats.
Recent Posts
I walked away from WaveBox and JetBrains in the same month
Ten years of WaveBox, JetBrains paid through 2028, and why I switched to Zen and Zed anyway.
Claude Code signs every commit you make. Here's how to stop it.
Anthropic's AI assistant stamps 'Co-authored-by: Claude' onto every commit by default. It's legally meaningless, it's opt-out rather than opt-in, and it's not there for you. Here's how to turn it off.
Astro 7 dropped the day after I finished my Astro 6 migration
The universe has a sense of humor. I published my migration story, went to sleep, and woke up to Astro 7. Here's what broke, what I fixed, and why I'm not even mad.
Featured Posts
2025 year in review: a year of building, learning, and gratitude
Reflecting on a year filled with code, open-source contributions, and the amazing people who made it all worthwhile.
webChronicle: your personal Wayback Machine
A web archiving tool that allows you to capture and explore snapshots of webpages over time. Like the Wayback Machine, but as your own personal Time Machine.
My favorite CSS hacks
Discover CSS hacks and shortcuts, including using box-sizing, selection pseudo-class, caret color for input elements, displaying links when an element has no text value, fitting images to content, detecting dark system mode, hiding images on mobile, using CSS vendor prefixes for different browsers, and utilizing Autoprefixer. Learn these tips and improve your CSS coding skills.