Moodle 5.3: the new API finally gets real OAuth (the old one keeps its tokens)
Moodle 5.3 LTS ships a core OAuth 2 server for the routed REST API. What changes, what doesn't, and who it's for.
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Dots are here: OpenAI's agent that Pro does not bring to Spain
OpenAI introduces dots on 29 September: an always-on agent on GPT-6 Astra, with its own computer. Pro skips the EEA. Grok Bot does not, and every bot on an account shares one computer.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is here: near Opus, at Sol's price
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September. Same token price as Sonnet 5 and GPT-6 Sol, $2 and $10. On their benches it sits near Opus 5.5. The 30% cheaper per task is theirs; Artificial Analysis, at max effort, measures a higher bill.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna are here: the 6, at half the price
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol and Luna on 22 September. Half the promotional price of 5.6, default effort at medium, and an outside index that barely moves.
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Claude Opus 5.5 is here: Fable, at Opus prices
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September. Fable 5.1-level on most work, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5, and the default effort drops to medium.
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Grok 4.7 is out: same price, the longer task
SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.7 on 21 September. Same price as 4.6, a 500,000-token context, and a table that does not win every row. What I'm watching, since I code with it.
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Why I chose Supabase for a dating app I'm building in my spare evenings
I asked my AI agent what backend to use for a dating app and it suggested Supabase. What it is, why it fit this particular case, and the fine print.
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I’ve started coding with Grok (after months on Claude)
I’ve spent months coding with Claude. This week I put Grok Build into the daily mix: what feels different, what I still do with Claude, and a menu bar app I built so I’m not blind about credit usage.
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Claude Sonnet 5: what it brings and when to pick it
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5: 1M context, launch pricing of $2/$10 and performance close to Opus. What changes and when to pick it over Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5.
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I moved my Moodle plugin out of Moodle's tree (and broke git push)
I moved mod_jitsi to a standalone repo and git push broke: a hook assuming ../.. and migrating @covers to PHP attributes for PHPUnit 11.
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Reuse auth_ldap instead of hardcoding LDAP in Moodle
A scheduled task in my Moodle plugin stopped generating attendance slips with a cryptic 'no document provided'. The culprit wasn't an IP that changed — it was having written it by hand.
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Protecting a home-served API from a flood without spending a cent
I serve several public APIs from a Mac mini at home. Here's how I kept a flood from taking down the whole machine: free Cloudflare rate-limiting and non-blocking locks at the origin.
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I moved my app's AI from Claude to Apple's cloud
My fitness app used the Claude API for all its AI. Apple is giving small developers its cloud AI for free, so I spent these days swapping Anthropic for Apple's models. What I migrated, what I didn't, and what I learned.
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Moodle has chosen React, and my plugin is following
Moodle 5.2 brings React into the core as its new UI framework. That's why I'm moving my plugin's frontend to React: aligning with the core's direction instead of piling up debt.
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How I code in 2026: my stack in the age of agents
My real programming stack in 2026: a Mac mini at home, Claude Code as the editor, plain PHP, Hugo, git hooks that deploy by themselves. And the other side: how I write Moodle plugins at UDIMA, where I do touch code line by line.
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I built nine free tools: Spanish fake data generator with valid NIF and IBAN, JSON formatter, hash calculator, QR generator and more. No registration, no limits, with API.
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