SaaS
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The Laravel 12 stack I default to for SaaS in 2026
Filament, Cashier, Reverb, Pulse, Inertia. The opinionated default I reach for and where it pays off.
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Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages — real cost at three scale tiers
Identical Next.js app, three platforms, three traffic tiers. The pricing math nobody shows you.
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Vercel AI SDK vs Mastra vs raw Anthropic SDK — production comparison
Three weeks shipping the same agent on three SDKs. Latency, token cost, ergonomics, failure modes.
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Cursor vs Claude Code vs Windsurf for backend work — 90 days in
Same backend feature set, three editors, three months. What changed about how I work.
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Vercel AI SDK 5: production review after 6 weeks
Six weeks shipping with Vercel AI SDK 5. Provider-agnostic and stream-first; the gaps are schema strictness and tracing. 8.5/10 for greenfield.
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Claude Code for backend work: 90-day verdict
90 days using Claude Code daily for backend work. Disciplined, accurate on multi-file refactors. 9/10 — the productivity ceiling moved.
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Production WordPress in 2026: Architecture Decisions That Compound
Architecture decisions that compound across years on production WordPress: object cache strategy, plugin governance, custom blocks vs. shortcodes, headless thresholds, observability.
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I tested 14 WordPress hosts for 30 days — the TTFB data nobody publishes
Identical site, identical content, 4 regions, 30 days. The medians, the p95s, and which vendors actually answered support tickets.