https://dracon.uk/blog AI prices, browser games, music, and tools — build notes and data-driven posts from Dracon. en https://dracon.uk/blog/cheapest-claude-august-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/cheapest-claude-august-2026 Seven providers we track serve Claude. Free lanes, pay-as-you-go, and subscriptions compared, with the catches and the cheapest route for light vs heavy use. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-promo-codes-august-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-promo-codes-august-2026 Our catalog tracks 15 active AI promo and referral codes across 13 providers. What each one gets you, the fine-print limits, and which are worth the effort. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-rate-limits-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-rate-limits-2026 22 of the 45 AI providers we track have a free tier. The real limits side by side: RPM, daily caps, token grants, and the 7 that hold up for actual work. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/byok-real-cost https://dracon.uk/blog/byok-real-cost The honest math behind bring-your-own-key: real API token prices from our 44-provider catalog versus $20 AI subscriptions, and why Dracon Omni is $10. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/one-person-platform https://dracon.uk/blog/one-person-platform An honest ops tour of dracon.uk: one VPS, five static apps and two Node apps behind Caddy, five Rust APIs on unix sockets, Paddle, OVH buckets, one person. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-written-novels-bookstore https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-written-novels-bookstore Five novels, 523,980 words, written end to end by our own book pipeline and published free forever with the AI label on the tin. Meet the Dracon Bookstore. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-pipeline https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-pipeline The 8-step pipeline from local build to OVH bucket to the catalog flip, the real status counts across our full 16-game catalog today, and what ships next. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/three-games-one-bug https://dracon.uk/blog/three-games-one-bug One SvelteKit default broke three of our games on the same night: 390 to 451 reloads in six seconds, zero console errors. The full postmortem, with the fix. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-by-the-data https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-by-the-data We computed the real stats behind our 2,000-track focus library: BPM bands, mood-tag counts, the 10-track rule, and why only 3 cooks in 100 carry the focus tag. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/sleep-music-cooks https://dracon.uk/blog/sleep-music-cooks Seven sleep-friendly cooks from our 2,000-track recipe library: a 40 BPM space drift, a note held for hours, dark ambient with a shadow, and honest caveats. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-price-war-july-2026 https://dracon.uk/blog/ai-price-war-july-2026 OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% on July 30; DeepSeek shipped V4 Flash to public beta July 31 from $0.14/M tokens. We track 45 AI providers — here's what changed, with numbers. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-apis-ranked https://dracon.uk/blog/free-ai-apis-ranked We maintain rate-limit data on 45 AI providers. Most 'free tiers' are demo taps. These 7 hold up for real work — with actual limits and how to mix them via BYOK. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-state https://dracon.uk/blog/dracon-arcade-state Our games catalog tracks 16 projects from playable to candidate. What each status means, what's playable now, and why we publish the pipeline honestly. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-library https://dracon.uk/blog/focus-music-library The Dracon music library is 1,000 generated tracks in 100 curated 'cooks', every recipe kept. The data behind it and how to use it. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dracon.uk/blog/samai-keys-transparency https://dracon.uk/blog/samai-keys-transparency BYOK tools ask for the most sensitive string you own. Exactly what happens to your keys across Dracon tools — extension, chat, vault — and what we never do. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT