Updates

  1. Which AI model should you use? Claude Fable 5 vs the field

    How we choose frontier models for real work — Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 — by cost per solved task, not leaderboard scores.

  2. Owning what breaks: our approach to IT maintenance

    Maintenance decides whether the build was worth it. We monitor, patch, and carry the pager — so total cost of ownership doesn't double a year later.

  3. Same cost or less: how we audit a year of IT spend

    What we look for when we audit IT spend — the three questions we ask of every line item, and why the savings compound.

  4. Cross Payment: payment orchestration for Indonesia & SEA

    Route every transaction across Xendit, Doku, Midtrans, Stripe and Adyen by price and uptime — one QRIS-ready integration for Indonesian marketplaces and fintechs.

  5. Why we run on Proxmox: cloud isolation without cloud bills

    Proxmox gives us VMs, snapshots, and clustering on hardware we control — far cheaper than managed cloud for steady workloads. When it's the right call, and when it isn't.