Author Archives: J.D. H.

Claude Opus 4.6 vs 4.7 Max: Which is better? Graded on Real World Planning

Sunday, 2026.04.19 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Letter-grade scorecard comparing Claude Opus 4.6 Max and Claude Opus 4.7 Max on a WordPress modernization planning task, with Opus 4.7 winning overall A- to C

TL;DR: This is one real WordPress website maintenance task, run once against each model. On that task, Claude Opus 4.7 produced the stronger first-pass plan because it started from a more accurate baseline. Opus 4.6 was faster and caught one thing 4.7 missed, but it got the active theme wrong and claimed an impossible PHP version. I would not execute either plan as written. Grades below. Note: Opus 4.7 is getting a rough reception on Reddit and around the web

Switch to Claude Code Opus 4.7 [instructions]

Thursday, 2026.04.16 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026. Here’s the fast path to switch Claude Code over, including the gotcha I hit in the VS Code extension. Note Update, July 2026: Anthropic has moved on to Opus 5, which is now the default on Max plans. If you came here trying to get the newest Opus and your picker still shows Opus 4.8, the fix is in my newer guide: how to switch Claude Code to Opus 5. The steps below

Claude Code Rate exceeded.

Monday, 2026.04.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

If you are getting “Rate exceeded.” when trying to re-authorize your Claude Code instance, it is probably because Anthropic’s servers are having API/login issues: Specifically, if you haven’t been heavily using Claude and you get kicked out of Claude Code with reauthorization required… for me every time it has been server issues on anthropic side and the eventually resolve. Still, that is small consolation if you are trying to finish up a project or get work done! Claude has been

Chuwi MiniBook X vs MacBook Neo: The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle

Monday, 2026.04.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Disclosure: I purchased this Chuwi MiniBook X with my own money (~$399 from Amazon). See also: my MacBook Neo review and full Neo benchmark analysis. The $399 Laptop That Refuses to Throttle In my MacBook Neo review, I wrote that after 60 seconds of sustained CPU load, the Neo “drops to phone-class performance that a $400 Windows laptop can match.” A reader could reasonably wonder: does a $400 Windows laptop actually deliver? I had a Chuwi MiniBook X on hand

How to Enable Wake-on-LAN (WoL) on a Synology NAS (DS925+ and Others)

Thursday, 2026.04.09 J.D. H. 2 comments

TL;DR: On a Synology NAS, enabling Wake-on-LAN takes two steps in two different DSM screens. Turn on Enable WOL on LAN 1 in Control Panel > Hardware & Power > General, then get the NAS MAC address from Control Panel > Info Center > Network, not from Network > Network Interface. Why Wake-on-LAN for your NAS? Wake-on-LAN, or WoL, lets you wake a powered-down device by sending a small network broadcast called a magic packet. I wanted it on my

Meta Muse Spark: The Honest Scorecard (3 Wins Out of 20)

Wednesday, 2026.04.08 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Meta just released Muse Spark, the first model from their new Superintelligence Labs. Along with it came a 20-benchmark comparison chart. The chart highlights every Muse Spark score in blue, which makes it look like Muse is leading across the board. The original Meta release table/graphic just highlighted their column and it made it seem almost as if they won every row… They did not win every test (far from it) so maybe the the table could use some actual

Who Reads This Blog? Traffic Breakdown by OS

Wednesday, 2026.04.08 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Who’s reading this blog, and what are they running? I pulled month of site visitor stats to find out. The Breakdown Here’s the operating system split across all visitors over the last month or so: Operating System Users Share Windows 12,292 53.6% iOS 3,846 16.8% macOS 3,732 16.3% Android 1,919 8.4% Linux 420 1.8% Chrome OS 53 0.2% Other / Unknown 677 2.9% Total: 22,939 users over 90 days. Windows Still Dominates, But Apple is a Third of the Audience

Can MacBook Neo Run Claude Code?

Wednesday, 2026.04.08 J.D. H. Leave a comment

So in updating my MacBook Neo review with some additional stress testing and thermal testing, I came across some interesting results that begged the question: “Can it run Claude?” If you’re a gamer, that probably triggers the old “Can it run Crysis?” reflex. For those who don’t remember (or weren’t there), Crysis was the 2007 PC game that became the de facto hardware torture test. If your rig could run Crysis, it could run anything. It was a rite of