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Matt Sayar

NOW is personalized software a thing?

Not that long ago, I tried to use Claude to customize Publii, the app I use to make this website. It didn't do so well. Literally the next day, Anthropic announced the Claude 4 family, and now Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out. Anthropic's unbiased opinion…

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Matt Sayar

Why does everyone hate WebP?

Does my website load fast enough? Publii, which I use to build this site, has a "Responsive Images" option which will load smaller images if you're on mobile, and larger images if you're on a bigger screen. That's faster for you, but it comes at…

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Matt Sayar

Sayonara SendGrid; Hello Brevo 

When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…

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