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September 1, 2026•1,219 words
I've spent the last few weeks running most of my daily coding work through OpenCode wired to DeepSeek V4, both Pro and Flash. Not as an experiment, as my actual default setup. And the thing that keeps surprising me is how rarely I miss Claude or GPT for everyday tasks, while paying a fraction of the price.
OpenRouter: One API Key to Rule Them All
August 12, 2026•1,255 words
OpenRouter is a unified API gateway that sits between your application and the underlying LLM providers. You send a request to OpenRouter, it forwards it to the model you specified, and returns the response in a normalized OpenAI-compatible format.
Keeping a Web-Backed SSH Terminal Alive Across SwiftUI Navigation
August 9, 2026•1,291 words
How to separate SSH, renderer, and view lifetimes when embedding xterm.js in a native macOS app.
OpenCode: The Open Source Coding Agent That Doesn't Lock You In
August 5, 2026•1,440 words
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent built in Go that runs in the terminal, desktop, and IDE. Its thesis is simple: you bring the model, OpenCode brings the agent. It supports 75+ LLM providers, from Claude and GPT to local models via Ollama, doesn't store your code, doesn't charge a subscription, and over 7.5 million developers use it monthly.
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