I shipped an llms.txt on this blog last week, then went looking for proof anything reads it. Google's John Mueller compares it to the old keywords meta tag; a 2026 study of ~38,000 AI-cited domains found zero citation advantage (p=0.85). Where it's genuinely useful, how to test it against your own logs, and why a helper file is a long shot on a web that already ignores robots.txt.
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.
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.
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.
I wanted CPU, memory and per-container stats on the single VPS that runs this blog, without standing up Prometheus and Grafana. Beszel, a ~10MB Go agent and a small hub, is what I kept. The honest trade: no PromQL, and retention is fixed at 30 days.
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.
I built a real page in Drupal Canvas, the React page builder now default in Drupal CMS 2.0. Where the in-browser JSX workflow helps, and where my git instinct itches.
I pointed Upstash's Context7 MCP at Symfony, Laravel and Drupal contrib churn to see if its injected docs are current, complete, and worth the token budget.
