Christo

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Christo

Aug 6

Google's Custom Search image API dies in 2027. Two traps in replacing it.

#opensource #api #node #typescript

5 min read

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Christo

Aug 6

Your LLM CLI's cost estimate is wrong in both directions - here's the field that fixes it

#ai #opensource #cli #typescript

3 min read

Christo

Aug 6

OpenAI is deleting your stored prompts on November 30. There is no export API.

#openai #node #javascript #devops

4 min read

Christo

Aug 5

You can't pin a GitHub Actions runner image — but you can find out exactly what changed

#githubactions #devops #opensource #ci

5 min read

Christo

Aug 3

Google kills the Custom Search JSON API on 2027-01-01. Here is a self-hosted drop-in.

#opensource #python #javascript #api

4 min read

Christo

Aug 3

An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads, caches and packets

#ai #writing #creativecoding #programming

3 min read

Christo

Jul 31

Debugging a black box: 36 renders against Claude, and the part where my own data was wrong

#mcp #debugging #testing #ai

6 min read

Christo

Jul 27

GitHub put Shell, Dockerfiles, Terraform and PHP behind a paywall. Here's a free Action that scans them.

#security #github #devops #opensource

3 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Christo

Jul 26

120,001 introspections, 3 distinct: making Typst's convergence check 334 faster

#devchallenge #bugsmash #rust #performance

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Christo

Jul 26

Ctrl+S said "Saved." The file was 0 bytes.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #cpp #qt

6 min read

Christo

Jul 25

cargo-witness: verify a published Rust crate matches the exact commit it claims

#opensource #rust #security #tools

3 min read

Christo

Jul 25

Bumping to TypeScript 7? Catch what tsgo breaks in your repo before CI does

#typescript #javascript #webdev #tooling

2 min read

Christo

Jul 24

Stop your Grok 4.5 agents from blowing past the context window

#ai #agents #langchain #typescript

3 min read

Christo

Jul 24

npm-script-lens v0.7.0: review shows the actual script, not just its name

1 min read

Christo

Jul 22

MCP goes stateless on July 28 — catch every breaking change in your server before the spec locks

#mcp #ai #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Christo

Jul 21

npm v12 stopped running install scripts. Which ones do you approve? A real audit walkthrough

#npm #security #javascript #node

4 min read

Christo

Jul 19

Reading a Rust crate's capabilities out of its compiled symbols

#automation #rust #security #tooling

4 min read

Christo

Jul 19

I fire 50 research prompts before bed and read the answers with coffee — free, on Gemini's background tier

#ai #node #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Christo

Jul 19

I stopped trusting "Bun vs Node" blog posts and asked X what devs actually say this week

#showdev #javascript #node #webdev

3 min read

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Google's Custom Search image API dies in 2027. Two traps in replacing it.

Want to connect with Christo?

Your LLM CLI's cost estimate is wrong in both directions - here's the field that fixes it

OpenAI is deleting your stored prompts on November 30. There is no export API.

You can't pin a GitHub Actions runner image — but you can find out exactly what changed

Google kills the Custom Search JSON API on 2027-01-01. Here is a self-hosted drop-in.

An AI wrote and illustrated a book of fables about threads, caches and packets

Debugging a black box: 36 renders against Claude, and the part where my own data was wrong

GitHub put Shell, Dockerfiles, Terraform and PHP behind a paywall. Here's a free Action that scans them.

120,001 introspections, 3 distinct: making Typst's convergence check 334 faster

Ctrl+S said "Saved." The file was 0 bytes.

cargo-witness: verify a published Rust crate matches the exact commit it claims

Bumping to TypeScript 7? Catch what tsgo breaks in your repo before CI does

Stop your Grok 4.5 agents from blowing past the context window

npm-script-lens v0.7.0: review shows the actual script, not just its name

MCP goes stateless on July 28 — catch every breaking change in your server before the spec locks

npm v12 stopped running install scripts. Which ones do you approve? A real audit walkthrough

Reading a Rust crate's capabilities out of its compiled symbols

I fire 50 research prompts before bed and read the answers with coffee — free, on Gemini's background tier

I stopped trusting "Bun vs Node" blog posts and asked X what devs actually say this week