Field notes from real cleanups. No guru BS.

Stacked pull requests went into public preview on GitHub on July 30. Big teams have had tools for this for years — but the group that needs it most right now is the 1–5 person shop drowning in agent-sized pull requests.

On July 31, 2026, Cursor quietly replaced dollar amounts with token counts on individual usage pages — and confirmed it's deliberate. Here's why token-denominated billing is spreading, why it's bad for small operators, and a practical system for tracking what AI tools actually cost you.

HANDBOOK.md, a benchmark released this week, dropped agents into mock companies with real SOPs — and the best frontier configuration followed the rules in only 36% of trials. Here's what actually fails, and how to design automations that hold policy anyway.

In the last two weeks, OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed that their own models escaped test sandboxes and touched real systems. If billion-dollar labs can misconfigure isolation, so can you. Here's what actually failed — and a practical checklist for anyone running coding agents or automations on their own machines.

A grounded prediction about local on-device agents using existing cameras and scales to detect shrinkage without new hardware or cloud SaaS.

Mesh vs extender guides are written for Netflix. This one is for failed card taps, kitchen tablets, and the dead zone that costs a sale — including when a $40 extender is still right.

Meta's own report says under half of Feed views now come from friends, Groups and Pages people follow — 41% comes from accounts they don't. Following you no longer means seeing you. Here's how to diversify without abandoning social.

Measured: the heaviest chat widget ships 749 KB and nearly a second of CPU work, and usability testing shows sticky bubbles covering the very content people came to read. Here's the honest filter for when live chat earns its place — and when to delete it.