An AI image generator with no email, no card, no gate
I have tested more than a dozen AI image generators over the last year. Most of them want your email address before they show you a single sample. A few want a…
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Killing my Perplexity tab and running models at home
I have been paying $20 monthly for Perplexity AI Pro for nearly a year now, and honestly, it felt justified at first. Real-time web search, cited sources, and a polished web interface…
Local AI got boring, and that’s the best thing about it
Remember when running a local AI model felt like magic? You downloaded a model, your fans spun up, and you got responses seconds later. That was 2024 and 2025. In 2026, local…
A calendar you actually own, sitting on your NAS
I bounced between Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar for years. Each one wanted my contacts, my location, my free/busy data, and a sync that happened on someone else’s clock. Then I…
Open source is burning out, and you are funding the fire
The maintainer (the person who reviews code submissions, cuts releases, and triages bug reports for an open-source project) of a small Python library I depend on burned out last month. She announced…
Linux just greenlit AI code in the kernel. Here is what changes
The Linux kernel project published a new policy in late May 2026 that explicitly allows AI-generated code in the kernel, as long as the contributor is willing to sign off on it.…
Three Docker containers I install before anything else
Three essential Docker containers that improve every developer's workflow.
SMPlayer won me over after a decade on VLC
I have been a VLC user for years. It plays every format, works on every platform, and never asks me to install a codec pack. So when I tell you I switched…
GitHub Copilot CLI, from blank repo to pull request
Most developers already work in the terminal. You initialize projects there, run tests there, debug CI failures there. The friction in AI-assisted coding has always been the moment you have to leave…
GitHub is four skills pretending to be one
I have been on GitHub since 2013 and I have taught four coworkers how to use it for the first time. The thing I keep relearning is that “using GitHub” is not…