The quieter AI trade-off inside open source projects
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…
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Android Studio now lets you pick the model that writes your code
For years, asking Google to play nice with rival AI models felt like shouting into the void. The search giant built its empire on keeping you inside the Google garden. So when…
WebMCP is Chrome’s bet that agents become the new users
Google has a habit of announcing the future like it is already here. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled WebMCP, a new protocol built into Chrome that is supposed to make the…
HP put real money behind open firmware. Your next laptop benefits
For years, updating firmware on Linux felt like asking a club bouncer to let you in while wearing the wrong shoes. You had the hardware. You had the OS. But the firmware,…
Google Authenticator was easy. I switched and now I feel safer
I used Google Authenticator for years because it was easy. It transferred between phones. It worked. But easy and secure are not the same thing. When I finally looked at what Google…
One agent to watch a mixed Windows and Linux fleet, finally
I ran a small mixed-fleet shop for two years with one Windows EDR (endpoint detection and response, software that watches a machine for suspicious activity and reports it back to a central…
NanaZip is the 7-Zip fork I wish I had years ago
I used 7-Zip for fifteen years. The interface never changed. The compression ratios never improved. The integration with Windows never got better. Then I tried NanaZip, a free open-source archiver forked from…
A home network dashboard that ends the SSH-and-guess routine
I used to guess whether my home network was healthy. SSH into the router, check the load, count the connected devices, check the ISP status, check the NAS. The guess work was…
OpenClaw, Google Spark, and the agent toolchain nobody saw coming
Six weeks after OpenClaw crossed 300,000 GitHub stars, Google walked onto the I/O stage and announced Gemini Spark. The two events are not actually connected in any technical sense, but they have…
Three real apps, zero paid APIs. The 2026 free tier audit
I built three small apps in 2025 that use only free-tier APIs (HTTP endpoints that other services expose for programmatic access). One handles lead routing for a friend’s consulting business, one does…