Using Claude to Clone Confluence in 16 Minutes
Day three. Another SaaS subscription, another Single Serving Application. I've now replaced Harvest (time tracking) and Trello (project management) w…
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Using Claude to Clone Trello in 20 Minutes
Last week I had Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex race to build a Harvest clone. Claude won decisively. That experiment killed a $180/year SaaS subsc…
The Single Serving Application
I recently had two AI models build a complete Harvest clone in under 20 minutes. The winning version covered 97% of Harvest's features. I'm seriously…
Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3-Codex: Building a Full Web App From Scratch
Last week was a big week for Anthropic and OpenAI. Both released new versions of their flagship coding models: Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic and GPT…
CloudFront vs. Cloudflare: Making the Right CDN Choice for AWS Workloads
I recently published a deep-dive into CloudFront's architecture covering its internals, origin architecture, cache behavior, security, and edge compu…
Introducing AVIAN: The Next Frontier in Adaptive Learning
(This is a reposting of a Renkara Media Group announcement.) Renkara Media Group is announcing AVIAN (Adaptive Vector Intelligence and Network), a fr…
Rebuilding My Site with Narrative CMS
Twenty years ago, I built a blogging platform called Narrative. It was an ASP.NET-based CMS with advanced features like automatic page rebuilding, a …
My Coding Experience
Recently, I failed one, probably two, maybe even three, live coding exercises. The exercises were part of a series of interviews for a role at a star…
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