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What a $20 coding subscription actually buys

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By Kevin Purdy
| Tailscale
31 cents seems like a lot to pay just to send “Good evening” to Claude Code, even if there are reasons for it. But $3.29 for a personalized B-minus copy of Rampart, running in a browser? I can see that. Those are the current token costs you might pay Anthropic for its coding assistance. If you pay $20 per month for a Claude Pro or ChatGPT subscription—or your company pays even more per-seat for team subscriptions—you don’t see the costs, unless you go looking for them.
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Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free

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By Kevin Purdy
| Tailscale
Blog |insightsJuly 16, 2026 This blog post, originally published in April 2024, has been updated to reflect the most modern and convenient ways to install a Tailscale app in Home Assistant and use it for remote access, to accompany a newer video tutorial. You can see the original video here. Home Assistant brings the connected devices in your home into one interface, where you can control, connect, and automate them.
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How to audit what your AI agents are accessing

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By Kevin Purdy
| Tailscale
Have you ever asked an LLM in chat what seemed like a simple question, then watched as it reinvented fire, the wheel, and quantum physics to tell you how far Scotiabank Arena is from the Toronto airport? AI agents, like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and OpenClaw, can do that, too. But their users explicitly encourage them to dig deep. Agents can make dozens of LLM requests per task, invoke tools, and pass data to one or more providers. So who sent what data to which model, and where is it logged?
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