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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