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Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

Home Assistant 2026.1 adds Matter devices with no phone

Home Assistant 2026.1 lifts Matter and Thread into Settings and adds devices from the web UI, with a new matter.js server for Matter 1.4 coverage.

Robot engineer reaching for a keyboard beside three gates marked with speech bubbles, a blueprint, and a red cross, while small drones queue on a conveyor belt

Superpowers stops your AI from coding until you talk

The Superpowers skills framework for coding agents blocks the first line of code until you agree a spec and a plan. See what that discipline costs.

A stamping press producing identical purple gradient web pages while a rule-inscribed gate transforms a few into distinct newsprint, terracotta, midnight, and green designs

Hallmark spends 67 KB of rules to avoid AI design slop

The Hallmark design skill for Claude Code fights AI-looking layouts with a 67 KB rule file, 20 themes, and 58 gates. Here is what that buys and costs.

Postgres 18 can replace Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

Postgres 18 plus a few extensions can replace Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Pinecone. A tour of the features, benchmarks, and limits.

Two disguised couriers approach a censorship wall: one walks through gate 443 wearing a borrowed building facade mask, the other speeds across choppy water toward closing sluice gates

VLESS Reality still works where Hysteria 2 gets blocked

VLESS Reality vs Hysteria 2 on stealth, speed, and blocking. Reality survives networks that kill UDP; Hysteria 2 wins on lossy, congested links.