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Dark cover card reading Apple is narrowing the Mac's widest permission, with one switch connected to four boxes: files, mail, messages, browsing history
Building6 Oct 20267 min

Apple Is Tightening Full Disk Access on the Mac Because of AI Agents. What It Means If You Run One

Apple will add stricter consent for macOS Full Disk Access because of AI agents. What changed, the Meta Muse dispute, and how to check your own terminal.

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Dark cover card reading Google sends fewer clicks. Now what. Bars show Google Search falling from 9% to 5% of pageviews while direct and dark social rise
Founders6 Oct 20267 min

SEO in 2026 When Google Answers the Question Itself: How a Small Site Still Gets Found

Google search traffic to publishers fell 40% in a year as AI Mode keeps clicks. What still works for a small site's SEO in 2026, and this site's exact setup.

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The jaybutani.com home page: the product builder, Jay Butani, Surat, India, since 2017, with a black and white portrait and a wireframe cube
Founders16 Sept 202611 min

Why I Built jaybutani.com: Personal Branding for a One-Person Software Shop in India

Why a developer in India needs a personal website, not just LinkedIn and an App Store page. What jaybutani.com is for, what is on it, and how it was built.

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GITEX Global exhibition floor crowded with visitors, Cisco and Huawei stands overhead, hall 22 signage
Founders16 Sept 20266 min

I'm at GITEX Global 2026 in Dubai This December. Let's Meet.

GITEX Global 2026: 8 to 11 December at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City, its new venue after four decades at DWTC. Jay Butani is attending; how to meet.

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iPhone running iOS 27 showing a Messages conversation with the iMessage compose box and one-tap Add to Reminders and Add to Notes suggestions
iOS13 Sept 202613 minUpdated 15 Sept 2026

Meta Blocked Apple Intelligence in WhatsApp and Instagram. iOS 27 Puts It on the Keyboard. Does That Beat the Block?

Meta switched off Apple Intelligence Writing Tools in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads. iOS 27 moved it into the keyboard. Tested on day one.

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Claude Code weekly limit timeline showing 100 before May 2026, 150 during the temporary boost, and 125 from 14 September 2026
Building13 Sept 202612 minUpdated 15 Sept 2026

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor Limits in September 2026: What Changed and Which Limit Actually Bites

Claude Code weekly limits dropped about 17% on 14 September, confirmed on Anthropic's help centre. How Claude Code, Codex and Cursor caps compare.

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Apple iPhone Duo held open in two hands, showing the 7.6-inch inner display
iOS10 Sept 20268 min

iPhone Duo India Price and Everything Apple Announced

The foldable iPhone costs ₹2,99,900 in India. Everything Apple announced at the September 2026 event, and what the India pricing really works out to.

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Two apps running side by side on the unfolded inner display of iPhone Duo
iOS10 Sept 202611 min

iPhone Duo and iOS 27: A Developer's Read on Apple's Event

Apple announced the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and an iOS 27 date. Notes from five years of shipping iOS apps on what adaptive layout actually demands now.

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ShotPop app screens on a purple gradient
iOS12 Aug 202615 min

How I made my first $100,000 on the App Store from a bedroom in Surat

No investors, no team, no Bay Area. Four apps, one person, and a set of habits that turned side projects into a real income. Here is what actually moved the number.

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ShotPop App Store screenshots: promise, effort, range
iOS21 Jul 202613 min

App Store screenshots that sell: what rebuilding ten store pages taught me

Conversion on the App Store is decided in about seven seconds and mostly by pictures. Here is the system I use for every app I ship, with the mistakes I made first.

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A broadcast control room lit by monitors
Broadcast30 Jun 202617 min

Broadcasting a 27-hour Guinness World Record: the run sheet, the failures, and the footage that counted

How a 27-hour, 27-minute, 27-second Guinness World Record chant in Vadodara was broadcast live and evidenced: four cameras, two recordings, zero gaps.

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The Prints Plus storefront homepage
Building18 May 202616 min

Rebuilding a 17-year-old family print business online: what changed, what didn't, and what the ads account cost us

The Prints Plus, printing walls in Surat since 2008, became a real online store in 2025: wall preview, product feeds, a rescued ads account. Numbers included.

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Fanture storefront homepage
Founders22 Apr 202614 min

Why one person should own product, brand and growth, and what it costs when three people do

Founders hire a developer, a designer and a marketer, then spend their days translating. The case for one accountable name across product, brand and growth.

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