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Nihar Ranjan Das is a software developer who writes NiharDaily — tech news, reviews, and buying guides in plain English. He covers the hardware, apps, and AI tools he actually uses, and cares more about the trade-offs than the hype.
Node.js's new release schedule starts with version 27: one major release a year, calendar-year version numbers, and LTS for every line. Here is what to change today.
Sun Sep 06 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
GPT-6 Astra API pricing is $10 per million input tokens, but a prompt over 272K tokens reprices the whole request to $20. Here is the real cost, and how it compares.
Sun Sep 06 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
A connector used to be text in, text out. Now it can draw. An MCP App is an MCP server that ships its own interface, and Claude renders it inline in the conversation.
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 5 min read · 6 views
The advice you have read about MCP context cost is out of date. The old rule was simple. Every tool you connect gets injected up front, so a big connector spends a chunk of the window before you type
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 6 min read · 2 views
Most guides to the Claude Connectors Directory explain how to submit. This one covers what fails. The triggers are published, exact, and easy to hit by accident. The most common one is a design choice
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 6 min read · 2 views
Claude shows one error for a lot of different problems: Couldn't reach the MCP server. Your server is up. You can curl it. MCP Inspector connects. Claude still refuses.
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
Your remote MCP server works in curl. It works in MCP Inspector. Then you add it to Claude as a custom connector and get this:
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 5 min read · 3 views
The official WordPress AI plugin added Content Translation on August 18, 2026, and the headline reads like the end of an era for paid multilingual plugins. It is not. The feature translates paragraph
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
The canonical WordPress AI plugin costs nothing to install and every feature in it spends money. WordPress core ships no AI provider, so you supply an API key and the meter runs on your account. Every
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 7 min read · 0 views
WordPress 7.1 "Mary Lou" shipped on August 19, 2026, on the closing day of WordCamp US in Phoenix. Its own roadmap, published two months earlier, promised four AI items. Read the field guide and most
Sat Aug 22 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views