More reading for developers, first published on claudegpt.si.
The best LLM for most developers in November 2026 is Claude Opus 5.5 for agent-style coding, with Gemini 4 Carbon as the model that scores highest overall and GPT-6.1 Sol as the pick when cost per task matters most. Those calls come from the public boards at Artificial Analysis and Arena on…
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AEO optimization is mostly decided in templates. Writers supply the answers, but developers decide whether an answer engine is allowed to quote a page, whether it can read the text without running scripts, and whether lists, tables and structured data arrive intact. Below are the parts that live in…
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You can run Claude Code in Cursor two ways: install Anthropic's Claude Code extension from Cursor's Extensions view, or install the standalone CLI and type claude in Cursor's integrated terminal. Either way the work bills your Claude plan, not Cursor's usage pool, so you get Cursor's editor and Tab…
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A Best Buy stock tracker is a job that loads one product page on a schedule and pings you when the item becomes purchasable. A developer can write one in an evening, but keeping it accurate is the real cost, so for most people the better choice is AyeWatch: paste the listing, state the condition in…
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A website SEO checker for developers should run where the code lives: in a script, a CI job or the coding agent that just edited your templates. The seogeoaeo.ai website check works that way. The check you can run in a browser tab is also exposed as a REST endpoint and an MCP tool, and each finding…
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A Twitter API alternative makes sense when the official X API costs more than the job is worth, or when the job is narrower than full data access. For the most common developer need, reacting when certain accounts or searches post, AyeWatch's signed webhooks take the least code; for bulk reads, an…
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A word jumble generator takes a list of answers, shuffles the letters of each one, and throws away the shuffles that make a bad puzzle. The version below is about thirty lines of JavaScript that run with Node and print rows ready to share. If you would rather play a finished one than build it…
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Keepa is an Amazon price tracker that draws price history charts onto Amazon product pages and alerts you when an item falls below your target price or comes back in stock. You can have the Keepa Amazon price tracker running in a few minutes from the browser add-on or the iPhone app; for the…
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How to install Codex CLI: run OpenAI's one-line installer for your system, then type codex in a project folder and sign in. On macOS and Linux that is a curl command, on Windows a PowerShell command, and npm or Homebrew work too if you already manage tools that way.
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The Google rich results test at search.google.com/test/rich-results checks a URL or a pasted code snippet and lists the rich result types its structured data qualifies for, with errors and warnings per item. Developers get the most out of it by testing in code mode before deploy, reading the…
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A WARN tracker is a watch on the state pages where layoff and closing notices get posted, and the hard part is not sending the alert but reading the inputs, because every state publishes them differently. For most developers the practical build is to let AyeWatch watch those pages, send new notices…
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A tech Wordle is a daily five-letter guessing game whose answers come from the tech world instead of a general word list. The one to play is Twordle on TechTwitter IO: six tries, the familiar letter feedback, and a hint that points at a story in that morning's edition of a satirical tech newspaper.
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