Long-form writing on Drupal, PHP frameworks, AI tooling, automated testing and everything else in a working programmer's stack — shipped from production, not theory.
Pi is Mario Zechner's minimal coding agent: four tools, a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, and skills that load only when needed. I ran it on this blog's Drupal repo. It's the clearest look at the machinery I've had in a while, and it has no seatbelts, on purpose.
GitHub Copilot went token-metered on 1 June, Cursor split its usage pools, and Sonnet 5's intro API price expires 31 August. The flat monthly plan for AI coding is quietly over. Why it broke, what it does to a working dev's bill, and the one rule I now budget by.
Coolify shipped a first-party MCP server in v4.1.0, so I wired Claude Code to the VPS that runs this blog and deployed by asking. It works, which is the worrying part. What the tools actually do (no rollback), the thin confirmation model, and how I scope tokens so an agent can't restart prod off a misread sentence.
The first of my GitHub Trending roundups: the repos actually worth cloning this week — agent scaffolding, from-scratch language runtimes in Rust and C, and two tools that just fix something today — plus how to spot the star-farmed shell hiding in the pile.
I just bolted GA4 onto this blog. Here's the honest look at self-hosting Plausible, Umami, or Rybbit instead - the ClickHouse tax, the GDPR wins, and what actually fits a small OVH VPS.
OpenCode is my backup for when Claude Code taps out. A field note on provider-agnosticism — and why Copilot going token-based knocked it out of my daily-driver slot.
Field notes on running Drupal 10/11 on FrankenPHP in classic mode today, why worker mode is still off-limits for Drupal, and how it sits behind my Traefik/Coolify setup.