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Paw – A full-featured visual HTTP client

RapidAPI for Mac is a native macOS HTTP client designed for testing and debugging APIs with features including visual request building, multiple authentication schemes (OAuth, Basic Auth, AWS Signature), code generation in various languages, and dynamic values that can extract data from previous responses for complex workflows. The tool emphasizes accuracy through its own HTTP library, performance via multithreading, and usability through environment switching, request organization, and support for importing API definitions from Swagger, RAML, and other formats, plus easy migration from tools like Postman and cURL.

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Insomnia REST Client

This is a marketing page for Insomnia, an API development platform that combines design, testing, and debugging tools with AI capabilities and tight integration with Kong's API management suite. It emphasizes features like API mocking, automated testing, MCP (Model Context Protocol) server support, and flexible data storage options (local, Git, or cloud) to appeal to both individual developers and enterprises managing governance and compliance requirements. The platform positions itself as an alternative to similar tools by highlighting native Kong Konnect integration, AI-powered workflows, and collaboration features that work across all pricing tiers including a free tier.

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xaraya

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Customize Claude Code with mods in TypeScript | Claude by Anthropic

Anthropic has released mods for Claude Code, small TypeScript functions that let users customize how the AI coding assistant works by hooking into events like tool calls, permission requests, and UI rendering—users can rewrite prompts, block tool calls, redact secrets, or modify the interface without waiting for official features. Mods ship as plugins and are stackable (multiple mods can hook the same event), run with full machine access like any installed code, and teams can use them for governance features like production safeguards or audit logging, with enterprise controls available through a built-in security mod that restricts risky operations.

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Xaraya download | SourceForge.net

Xaraya is a PHP-based open-source CMS framework that emphasizes security through strict input validation and granular permission controls, allowing administrators to grant or deny access at both broad and specific levels. The platform provides extensibility through modules and blocks, a custom templating system called BlockLayout, and dynamic data objects that users can create or customize without deep technical knowledge. Built-in multilingual support and a robust API make it suitable for developers building scalable, localized web applications across multiple cloud providers.

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Agents and products | Claude Marketplace | Claude by Anthropic

The Claude Marketplace allows enterprises to apply their existing Anthropic commitments across multiple Claude-powered software tools—including platforms for code review, app development, legal work, and data analysis—rather than managing separate contracts with individual vendors. This consolidation simplifies purchasing and budgeting while giving organizations access to vetted, enterprise-grade partners that can be added flexibly as needs change.

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What a task costs on Opus 5.5 | Claude by Anthropic

Claude Code tasks cost money based on four factors: the number of turns (which resend the conversation), cache hit rates (dramatically cheaper than fresh reads), output tokens including thinking (the most expensive element), and model choice. Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper on input and output tokens and 60% cheaper on cached reads than Opus 5, shifting the economics significantly toward long, cache-heavy sessions. The post provides interactive calculators and concrete guidance: use Opus 5.5 as your daily driver for supervised work, raise effort level before switching models, put lookup tasks on smaller models like Sonnet, keep sessions moving to maintain cache warmth, and crucially, measure your own real tasks to understand how these tradeoffs apply to your specific codebase and workflow.

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GitHub - onmyway133/claude-code-tips-tricks: My favorite Claude Code tips & tricks · GitHub

A collection of tips for using Claude Code effectively, organized into eight categories covering sessions, command mode, agents, skills, MCP servers, prompting, hooks, and workflow management. Topics range from practical efficiency gains like naming sessions after git branches and using subagents for exploration to architectural choices like running parallel worktrees for isolation and using hooks as deterministic gates for unattended runs. The guide emphasizes that context is the real constraint in long sessions, so managing what stays in the conversation window through deliberate pruning, subagent delegation, and rewinding failed attempts matters more than piling on additional rules.

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Claude Code Best Practices: Memory Management | Code Centre

Claude Code's memory management system emphasizes keeping instructions lean by storing only essential, session-agnostic guidelines in CLAUDE.md files while delegating project-specific details to a docs/ folder referenced as needed. Rather than using memory banks or frequent compacting (which wastes tokens and fidelity), users should structure workflows around architecture documents, implementation plans with checkboxes, and selective /compact usage only when context window pressure demands it while preserving session continuity.

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I built a dynamic GitHub app store with Claude, now I don't have to rely on Google for open-source app discovery

The author built a custom Claude-powered app store interface that sits atop GitHub to address the platform's poor user experience for discovering and installing open-source software. Using Claude's web search and API access, the system curates 10-15 relevant applications from multiple sources, presents them in a clean gallery with screenshots and metadata, performs basic security checks on the source code, verifies system dependencies, and can automate installation—translating developer jargon into plain language for non-technical users. The article includes a detailed prompt to create this as a reusable Claude skill, demonstrating how LLMs can make technical tools accessible to anyone regardless of coding knowledge.

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only-cli/oc: Turn any website into a compact CLI tailored for AI agents. Browse the web in hundreds of tokens, not tens of thousands.

oc is a CLI tool that turns any webpage into a compact, numbered text interface so AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) can browse without choking on raw HTML — it impersonates Chrome to dodge bot blocks, ships tuned shortcuts for 20+ sites like HN, GitHub, and language docs, and supports authenticated sessions via cookie jars. Worth keeping mainly for the benchmark numbers: 142x fewer tokens than raw HTML, the only reader that returned real content on every one of 15 tested sites, and cheaper/more accurate than Claude Code's built-in WebFetch/WebSearch on real lookup tasks. Good reference if you're building or evaluating agent web-browsing tooling and want a concrete alternative to screenshot- or full-HTML-based approaches.

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The Agent Skills Directory

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The Claude Code Guide For Startups | Claude by Anthropic

This guide distills operational practices from over a dozen fast-growing startups that use Claude Code to accelerate product development and internal processes. The companies featured—including ClickHouse, Clay, and Artemis Security—demonstrate how agentic AI can democratize coding (enabling non-technical employees to ship features), automate repetitive work across development lifecycles, and create feedback loops where internal AI tools directly inspire customer-facing products. The guide emphasizes five principles: enabling everyone to contribute code, automating mechanical tasks so engineers focus on high-judgment work, maintaining rigorous verification systems, constantly rebuilding as model capabilities evolve, and using internal prototyping to refine products that incorporate AI.

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Grav - A Modern Flat-File CMS | Grav

Grav 2.2 is a flat-file CMS that has been rebuilt with a modern API-first architecture, featuring a new SvelteKit-based admin interface, a stable REST API that powers both the admin and headless applications, and a built-in MCP server for AI agent access—all running on current PHP 8.3+, Symfony 7, and Twig 3 stacks. The update delivers significant performance improvements (2x faster cold starts and 96% less memory on large sites) while maintaining Grav's core appeal of storing content as plain Markdown and YAML files without database lock-in. The system unifies human and AI access through the same permission model and API, making it suitable for blogs, documentation, CI/CD pipelines, and agentic workflows alike.

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Electron

Electron is a framework that combines Chromium and Node.js to enable developers to build desktop applications using JavaScript and web technologies, running natively across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The framework handles difficult infrastructure tasks like native UI integration, automatic updates, crash reporting, and installer generation, allowing developers to focus on application logic while choosing from popular front-end libraries like React, Vue, or Angular. Electron Forge provides a streamlined toolkit for bootstrapping and publishing apps, while Electron Fiddle offers an interactive environment for experimenting with the framework before committing to full development.

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MacGap

MacGap is a framework that lets web developers build native macOS applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of Swift or Objective-C, running code within OS X's WebView engine. It provides a lightweight JavaScript API for OS X integration features like native notifications and file system access, while remaining under 1MB in size and fully compatible with Mac App Store submission requirements. The project includes an Xcode template and documentation to help developers get started converting web projects into standalone Mac applications.

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10 Tips for Writing JavaScript without jQuery | Tutorialzine

Modern browsers have evolved significantly since jQuery's heyday, making vanilla JavaScript viable for many projects without sacrificing productivity—the author demonstrates ten essential techniques (DOM ready, element selection, event handling, class manipulation, content changes, DOM insertion/removal, tree navigation, array iteration, animations, and AJAX) that are now straightforward with native APIs like `querySelector`, `addEventListener`, and `classList`. While jQuery remains valuable for complex applications, simpler projects like basic web pages, extensions, and mobile sites can benefit from lighter vanilla JavaScript implementations that reduce page bloat and load times.

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