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Framer Marketplace Changes Spark Creator Controversies

A Framer template creator documents ten recurring controversies around the Framer marketplace from 2023–2026, recounting personal experience selling templates since April 2023 and describing platform changes that affected discoverability and creator workflows. Key moments include the August 2023 release of an HTML-to-Framer Chrome extension, a 2024 marketplace redesign that removed the 'New' section and search, lengthy manual template review processes, perceived favoritism toward top creators, and Framer's 2026 decision to open the marketplace to self-published templates without prior review. The author urges creators to provide feedback to Framer, to focus on audience-building and niche products, and to treat marketplace upheavals as cyclical rather than terminal.

Stop Claude Code agent writing outside directory

The article explains two complementary guardrails for preventing unattended Claude Code agents from writing files outside an intended directory: declarative permission rules in settings.json (permissions.deny) and a programmatic PreToolUse hook that inspects pending tool calls and can deny writes. It details how deny/allow precedence makes an allow-list impossible with permissions.deny alone, shows a Node.js hook implementation that defers on malformed payloads and denies out-of-scope writes, and warns that hooks cannot see writes from Bash commands, subagents, or generated build artefacts. As a post-hoc check, the author recommends running a git-status diff against an allow-list before committing to catch any changes the hook missed. The piece clarifies these measures are not an OS sandbox and outlines trade-offs such as failing-open behavior.

Run Local LLMs on Apple Silicon with MLX vs llama.cpp

A developer guide comparing MLX (Apple's ML framework) and llama.cpp for running local large language models on Apple Silicon Macs. The article shows a five-minute MLX quick start (pip install mlx-lm) and example commands to run a 4-bit quantized 3B model, explains when to choose MLX versus llama.cpp, links a ready-to-run GitHub starter repository, and points to a paid deployment playbook hosted on Gumroad. The piece emphasizes privacy, offline usage, and cost benefits of running LLMs on-device and was published on 2026-08-07.