https://victorantos.com/ Explore the dynamic intersection of technical writing and software development. From in-depth tutorials and guides to industry insights and best practices — clear, effective documentation for software projects. en Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://victorantos.com/posts/the-boring-cms-i-always-wanted/ https://victorantos.com/posts/the-boring-cms-i-always-wanted/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT After years of heavyweight CMS platforms, I moved this blog onto a tiny static CMS an AI built for me in a weekend — no database, no hosting bill, just Markdown files in Git. https://victorantos.com/posts/ben-cera-1m-claude-bill-polsia-margins/ https://victorantos.com/posts/ben-cera-1m-claude-bill-polsia-margins/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ben Cera says Polsia paid Anthropic over $1M in a month. Against $4.6-10M ARR that is a negative gross margin — I do the math the viral tweet skips https://victorantos.com/posts/paul-graham-billion-dollar-math-developer-bottleneck/ https://victorantos.com/posts/paul-graham-billion-dollar-math-developer-bottleneck/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT PG says a billion is just growth math. From the bootstrapping trenches, the real bottlenecks are owned distribution, taste, and surviving the flat line https://victorantos.com/posts/from-azure-to-one-vps-llm-migration/ https://victorantos.com/posts/from-azure-to-one-vps-llm-migration/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I moved a dozen side projects off Azure onto one Hetzner VPS with Cloudflare Tunnel, R2, and SES — using an LLM agent to do the grunt work https://victorantos.com/posts/i-bought-a-denon-for-my-wedding-then-i-vibe-coded-its-radio-back/ https://victorantos.com/posts/i-bought-a-denon-for-my-wedding-then-i-vibe-coded-its-radio-back/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT vTuner's shutdown bricked my 2014 Denon AVR-X3000's internet radio. I vibe-coded a 900-line Go replacement server with Claude Code in two hours https://victorantos.com/posts/i-built-shellagent-an-open-source-terminal-inspired-by-claude-codes-leaked-source/ https://victorantos.com/posts/i-built-shellagent-an-open-source-terminal-inspired-by-claude-codes-leaked-source/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built ShellAgent, a ~1,100-line open-source TypeScript terminal borrowing async generators, streaming tools, and provider swaps from Claude Code's leaked source https://victorantos.com/posts/i-pointed-claude-at-its-own-leaked-source-heres-what-it-found/ https://victorantos.com/posts/i-pointed-claude-at-its-own-leaked-source-heres-what-it-found/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I pointed Claude Code at its own leaked source — 512K lines of TypeScript — and found KAIROS, ULTRAPLAN, voice mode, and companion buddies https://victorantos.com/posts/i-read-the-leaked-claude-code-source-heres-what-i-found/ https://victorantos.com/posts/i-read-the-leaked-claude-code-source-heres-what-i-found/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I dug through Claude Code's leaked source: 512k lines of TypeScript, a custom terminal UI framework, ML-gated permissions, and multi-agent code https://victorantos.com/posts/naval-said-make-your-own-app-store-so-i-did/ https://victorantos.com/posts/naval-said-make-your-own-app-store-so-i-did/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Naval said make your own app store, so I built AppShelf: a zero-dependency PWA app catalog for iPhone and desktop, powered by one JSON file https://victorantos.com/posts/hold-my-beer-i-vibe-coded-a-piano-game-for-my-daughter/ https://victorantos.com/posts/hold-my-beer-i-vibe-coded-a-piano-game-for-my-daughter/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I vibe-coded PianoFun with Claude Code: a free, open-source falling-note MIDI piano game in vanilla JS my daughter helped design https://victorantos.com/posts/i-saw-norton-commander-on-x-and-nostalgia-made-me-build-it-for-the-web/ https://victorantos.com/posts/i-saw-norton-commander-on-x-and-nostalgia-made-me-build-it-for-the-web/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A screenshot of Norton Commander on X sent me back to 1995, so I rebuilt it for the browser: vanilla JS, dual panels, F-keys, OPFS, open source https://victorantos.com/posts/how-nestclaw-saves-you-50-percent-on-claude-sonnet-and-opus-with-smart-context-trimming/ https://victorantos.com/posts/how-nestclaw-saves-you-50-percent-on-claude-sonnet-and-opus-with-smart-context-trimming/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built smart context trimming into NestClaw's proxy: it keeps prompts under Claude's 200K token tier, cutting Sonnet and Opus costs up to 62% https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-nestclaw-micro-plans-your-own-ai-agent-for-under-4-dollars/ https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-nestclaw-micro-plans-your-own-ai-agent-for-under-4-dollars/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I added Micro Plans to NestClaw: one-time passes from $3.99 that give you your own dedicated AI agent on its own server, live in seconds https://victorantos.com/posts/building-career-coffee-a-job-board-for-specialty-coffee-professionals/ https://victorantos.com/posts/building-career-coffee-a-job-board-for-specialty-coffee-professionals/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT I'm building Career.Coffee, a job board for specialty coffee pros — 300+ companies, 50+ listings, built in public with AI. Come shape it https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-gymivorb-ai-for-gymi-prep/ https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-gymivorb-ai-for-gymi-prep/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT I launched Gymivorb.com, a free site of interactive Math and German mini-apps for Swiss Gymi exam prep — every app AI-generated with Codorex https://victorantos.com/posts/when-apples-terms-and-conditions-ambushed-me-on-the-toilet/ https://victorantos.com/posts/when-apples-terms-and-conditions-ambushed-me-on-the-toilet/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT I read an Apple Watch update's Terms & Conditions mid-bathroom break and found three dead MPEG LA links — mpegla.com serving a 500 error https://victorantos.com/posts/the-internet-is-on-fire-today/ https://victorantos.com/posts/the-internet-is-on-fire-today/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Cloudflare, GitLab, Claude, Shopify and LinkedIn all crashed within minutes — my take on why shared infrastructure keeps breaking the web https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-codorex-vibe-coding-for-kids/ https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-codorex-vibe-coding-for-kids/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT I built Codorex, where kids describe a game in plain English and Rex the coding dino builds it in seconds — vibe coding, no syntax required https://victorantos.com/posts/best-platforms-to-compare-ai-model-results/ https://victorantos.com/posts/best-platforms-to-compare-ai-model-results/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT My guide to five platforms for comparing AI model outputs in 2025 — Share.Sneos.com, Artificial Analysis, LLM-Stats, Vellum, and YourGPT.ai https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-share-sneos-ai-library/ https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-share-sneos-ai-library/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT I launched the AI Library on share.sneos.com: 2,119 real comparisons of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and Mistral across 100 categories https://victorantos.com/posts/dotnet-azure-developer-study-guide/ https://victorantos.com/posts/dotnet-azure-developer-study-guide/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Twelve .NET and Azure interview questions with worked answers and code — GC internals, async/await, Azure AD auth, Functions vs WebJobs, HA design https://victorantos.com/posts/who-built-ai-and-what-must-we-give-back/ https://victorantos.com/posts/who-built-ai-and-what-must-we-give-back/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI was built on freely shared human knowledge — I argue we owe reciprocity: open weights, attribution, and public compute as a shared good https://victorantos.com/posts/email-security-explained-simply-lessons-from-securing-sneos/ https://victorantos.com/posts/email-security-explained-simply-lessons-from-securing-sneos/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT SPF, DKIM, and DMARC explained with plain postal-mail analogies — what I learned securing email for sneos.com and how the three work together https://victorantos.com/posts/how-i-built-a-share-feature-that-could-drive-500-premium-users/ https://victorantos.com/posts/how-i-built-a-share-feature-that-could-drive-500-premium-users/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I built Sneos.com's shareable AI comparison URLs with GitHub + VuePress, and the growth playbook aiming for 500 premium users https://victorantos.com/posts/automated-social-media-account-creation-saas/ https://victorantos.com/posts/automated-social-media-account-creation-saas/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT I analyzed why automated social media account creation for SaaS is legally a non-starter, and the compliant setup-assistant business to build instead https://victorantos.com/posts/a-federated-professional-network/ https://victorantos.com/posts/a-federated-professional-network/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT My interactive plan for a federated, user-owned LinkedIn alternative built with Blazor and ActivityPub — the vision, phased build steps, and feature roadmap https://victorantos.com/posts/countdown-to-superintelligence/ https://victorantos.com/posts/countdown-to-superintelligence/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT I built a live countdown to January 1, 2027, tracking the AI 2027 AGI prediction, plus the Sam Harris and Daniel Kokotajlo podcast on superintelligence https://victorantos.com/posts/vibe-code-your-way-out-a-hopeful-survival-guide-for-software-developers-in-the-ai-age/ https://victorantos.com/posts/vibe-code-your-way-out-a-hopeful-survival-guide-for-software-developers-in-the-ai-age/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT After 18 years as a developer, I explain why AI is eating routine coding work and how vibe-coding tiny joyful products became my way through https://victorantos.com/posts/sneos-com-major-update-6-months-of-innovation-and-growth/ https://victorantos.com/posts/sneos-com-major-update-6-months-of-innovation-and-growth/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Six months after launching Sneos.com, I recap doubling to six AI models, adding swipe-based mobile chat, a Premium tier, and 3x faster responses https://victorantos.com/posts/when-a-judge-says-i-don-t-get-moody-on-my-period-our-startup-weekend-adventure/ https://victorantos.com/posts/when-a-judge-says-i-don-t-get-moody-on-my-period-our-startup-weekend-adventure/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT We pitched HappyWifeHappyLife, a period-tracking app for couples, at a Swiss startup weekend — and a judge's fiery Q&A taught us more than winning would have https://victorantos.com/posts/sneos-com-adds-deepseek-v3-and-grok-3-for-premium-users/ https://victorantos.com/posts/sneos-com-adds-deepseek-v3-and-grok-3-for-premium-users/ Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT I added DeepSeek V3 and Grok 3 to Sneos Premium — compare them side by side with GPT-4 and Claude in one multi-chat interface https://victorantos.com/posts/vanmoof-e-bike-launch-countdown/ https://victorantos.com/posts/vanmoof-e-bike-launch-countdown/ Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT I built a live countdown page for VanMoof's next e-bike reveal on June 11, 2025 — animated timer, particle effects, and an early-access link https://victorantos.com/posts/vibe-marketing-building-hype-by-building-fast/ https://victorantos.com/posts/vibe-marketing-building-hype-by-building-fast/ Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I built a SpaceX Starship countdown page with Claude AI in 10 minutes, shared it at the right moment, and got a 1000% traffic spike https://victorantos.com/posts/spacex-countdown/ https://victorantos.com/posts/spacex-countdown/ Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT I built a live countdown page for SpaceX Starship V3's first flight — Flight 12 from Starbase — with launch details, animations, and the webcast link https://victorantos.com/posts/time-that-takes-vs-time-that-lasts/ https://victorantos.com/posts/time-that-takes-vs-time-that-lasts/ Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Exploring Paul Graham's insight about the fundamental difference between time that merely passes and time that actively demands our investment. https://victorantos.com/posts/improved-ux-with-floating-dock/ https://victorantos.com/posts/improved-ux-with-floating-dock/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT I replaced three chat input fields on Sneos.com with a single floating dock, cutting input friction and clutter on mobile and desktop https://victorantos.com/posts/invitation-codes-vs-referral-links-for-sneos-com/ https://victorantos.com/posts/invitation-codes-vs-referral-links-for-sneos-com/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I plan to grow Sneos.com: invitation codes for an exclusive beta, then referral links with rewards to scale — and why a hybrid of both wins https://victorantos.com/posts/unveiling-probotly-com/ https://victorantos.com/posts/unveiling-probotly-com/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT I built ProBotly.com, an AI content detector that combines multiple models for real-time analysis and detailed breakdowns of whether text is human-made https://victorantos.com/posts/how-i-repaired-my-iphone-display-and-back-glass/ https://victorantos.com/posts/how-i-repaired-my-iphone-display-and-back-glass/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT AppleCare+ cut my iPhone display and back glass repair from 565+ CHF to 58 CHF at the Zurich Apple Store — done in about 3 hours https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-sneos-com-your-multi-chat-ai-assistant/ https://victorantos.com/posts/introducing-sneos-com-your-multi-chat-ai-assistant/ Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT I launched Sneos.com, a multi-chat AI platform that sends one prompt to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and compares their answers side by side https://victorantos.com/posts/solutions-for-selling-and-updating-a-private-github-repo/ https://victorantos.com/posts/solutions-for-selling-and-updating-a-private-github-repo/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Five ways to sell a private GitHub repo and keep buyers updated: sponsorship access, releases, private packages, automated notifications, licensing https://victorantos.com/posts/the-best-of-zurich/ https://victorantos.com/posts/the-best-of-zurich/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT My guide to Zürich's highlights: the Altstadt, Lake Zürich, Uetliberg hikes, Kunsthaus art, Bahnhofstrasse shopping and Zürich-West nightlife https://victorantos.com/posts/nfactorial-incubator-2024-finalist/ https://victorantos.com/posts/nfactorial-incubator-2024-finalist/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT The top 10 finalist projects from nFactorial Incubator 2024 — AI startups like Vcomics, Quant Trader AI and math12.studio, with links to each repo https://victorantos.com/posts/welcome-back-to-angjobs-your-gateway-to-tech-opportunities/ https://victorantos.com/posts/welcome-back-to-angjobs-your-gateway-to-tech-opportunities/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT I relaunched AngJobs, my open-source job board of tech roles sourced monthly from Hacker News — US, UK, Europe and remote, editable via GitHub PRs https://victorantos.com/posts/c-plus-plus-test-1/ https://victorantos.com/posts/c-plus-plus-test-1/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT An interactive C++ beginner quiz I built into the blog: eight questions with a timer and instant JavaScript grading out of 12 points https://victorantos.com/posts/c-sharp-test-1/ https://victorantos.com/posts/c-sharp-test-1/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Take an interactive C# beginner quiz right on my blog: eight questions on operators, constants, arrays, and async/await, auto-graded with a timer https://victorantos.com/posts/javascript-test-1/ https://victorantos.com/posts/javascript-test-1/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Take an interactive beginner JavaScript quiz right in the browser: eight questions on operators, const, functions and async/await, with a timer and instant scoring https://victorantos.com/posts/rust-test-1/ https://victorantos.com/posts/rust-test-1/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Take my interactive Rust beginner quiz: eight questions on variables, functions, Option and clone vs copy, graded in-browser with a timer https://victorantos.com/posts/python-test-1/ https://victorantos.com/posts/python-test-1/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Take an interactive Python beginners quiz right in the browser: 8 questions on syntax, data types and lists, auto-graded with a timer https://victorantos.com/posts/post-apple-rejected-my-myclearcloud-app/ https://victorantos.com/posts/post-apple-rejected-my-myclearcloud-app/ Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Apple rejected MyClearCloud, my iCloud video-cleanup app, under Guideline 4.3(a) spam — here's the full letter and my resubmission plan https://victorantos.com/posts/unveiling-apple-s-icloud-storage-tactics-the-missing-feature-in-photos-app/ https://victorantos.com/posts/unveiling-apple-s-icloud-storage-tactics-the-missing-feature-in-photos-app/ Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Why Apple's Photos app won't let you sort by file size — and how that pushes iCloud upgrades. I built CloudClean to fix it. https://victorantos.com/posts/your-icloud-storage-is-full/ https://victorantos.com/posts/your-icloud-storage-is-full/ Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Tired of the iCloud storage is full alert, I sketch CloudClean: an app that finds your biggest iCloud videos, offloads them to USB, then deletes them https://victorantos.com/posts/business-plan-cloudclean/ https://victorantos.com/posts/business-plan-cloudclean/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT My business plan for CloudClean, an iOS app that sorts iCloud photos and files by size so users free up storage instead of paying for upgrades https://victorantos.com/posts/business-plan-budget-hotel-finder/ https://victorantos.com/posts/business-plan-budget-hotel-finder/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT My business plan for Budget Hotel Finder: a subscription service emailing cheap hotel-room alerts, with revenue projections and an Azure/.NET stack https://victorantos.com/posts/today-is-my-youtube-channel-s-birthday/ https://victorantos.com/posts/today-is-my-youtube-channel-s-birthday/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Marking my YouTube channel's birthday: analytics from 2008 to 2024 — 136K views, 14,000 watch hours, and subscriber milestones along the way https://victorantos.com/posts/vz-job-rejection-email/ https://victorantos.com/posts/vz-job-rejection-email/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT The actual rejection email VZ VermögensZentrum sent me after my job application in Zurich, shared in full German original and English translation https://victorantos.com/posts/job-application-full-stack-c-net-software-engineer-m-w/ https://victorantos.com/posts/job-application-full-stack-c-net-software-engineer-m-w/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT I applied for a full stack C#/.NET engineer role at Imnoo, a Swiss AI manufacturing startup using .NET 5, Angular, Azure and SQL Server https://victorantos.com/posts/job-application-senior-software-engineer-net-80-100-for-vz-zurich/ https://victorantos.com/posts/job-application-senior-software-engineer-net-80-100-for-vz-zurich/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT I applied for a Senior .NET Software Engineer role at VZ in Zurich — full job description in German and English: C#, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka https://victorantos.com/posts/spacex-starship-29/ https://victorantos.com/posts/spacex-starship-29/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT A quick look ahead at Starship 29's fourth test flight with Booster 11: the goal is reaching orbit and a soft water landing intact https://victorantos.com/posts/this-is-my-first-post/ https://victorantos.com/posts/this-is-my-first-post/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Tutorial from the Jekyll Chirpy theme on writing posts: front matter, categories, TOC, math, Mermaid diagrams, images, and video embeds