#ThoughtsProcess

Anthropic brought Claude Fable 5 back for global users on July 1 — but it's not allowed to write code, it falls back to Opus 4.8. So I used it as an orchestrator instead, ran Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 as sub-agents under it, and shipped fixes across three of my apps in an afternoon. Here's exactly how the orchestrator method works, what it cost, and whether it's worth it.

Two days after I wrote a love letter to Claude Fable 5, the US government forced Anthropic to shut it off. Here's what actually happened, why it happened, what it means for developers outside the US, and what Anthropic does next.

The final post in the Lumo series — everything I learned from building a full-stack personal finance app from scratch, the mistakes I'd avoid, and what comes next.

Building security for a finance app — device approval workflows, multi-layer rate limiting, subscription tiers, and GDPR compliance. The unglamorous stuff that keeps data safe.

Every app needs an admin panel. Here's how I built Lumo's with Vite and TanStack Router — and why internal tools deserve real engineering effort.

Building a finance app in React Native that actually feels native — screen architecture, custom hooks, real-time sync, and the small details that matter.

Building a spending prediction engine that tells you how much you'll spend next month — two model versions, confidence intervals, and a lot of humility.

Salary hits monthly. Freelance pays biweekly. Investments trickle in quarterly. Converting all of that into one budget number? Harder than it sounds.

Building a real-time finance app on Convex — what's magical, what's painful, and what I wish someone had told me before I started.

Building a custom budget cycle system that aligns with your actual payday — sounds simple, right? Three rewrites later, here's what I learned.