Eight AI dev tools later, three earned a spot on my dock
Eight AI developer tools arrived in my evaluation queue in the last quarter. I installed all of them, used each one for at least a week on a real project, and three…
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Google’s AI Search redesign eats more of the open web
At the I/O conference on May 19th, Google announced the biggest change to Search in over 25 years, and almost nobody outside the SEO industry noticed. The “Intelligent Search Box” pushes AI…
AI Knows Who You Are Online — Even With a Fake Name
AI Knows Who You Are Online, Even With a Fake Name I have been running a small experiment on my own browsing for the last six months. I used a different name,…
AI Is Not a Coworker—It is an Exoskeleton: The Mental Model That Actually Works
AI Is Not a Coworker. It Is an Exoskeleton: The Metaphor That Finally Made Sense to Me For the last two years, every product launch deck in the AI space has used…
FF Designer: AI-Powered UI Design That You Can Actually Edit
FF Designer: An Open Source UI Design Tool That Runs in Your Browser Most UI design tools run in two places: your browser, as a cloud app, or on your desktop, as…
I Replaced My Claude Subscription With a 1.2B Model That Runs on My Phone
I paid Claude roughly $20 a month for everyday questions, weather lookups, and the occasional weekend study guide for my kid. Then I read Nolen Jonker’s piece on XDA Developers, where they…
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere PicoClaw is a 3MB command-line HTTP client (a tool for making web requests from your terminal) that I have been using for about two months, and…
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch ZeroClaw is a new open-source AI coding assistant written in Rust, and after three weeks of using it as my daily driver I…
Mengram: The AI Memory API That Remembers What Matters
The hardest part of building an AI agent is not the model. It is the memory. Every agent framework I have used in the last year has its own half-baked solution for…
Kilo Code Reviewer: AI-Powered Code Reviews Every Time You Open a PR
Most “AI code reviewer” launches in 2025 and 2026 have been marketing demos. The product posts a comment on a pull request, the comment is sometimes useful, and the vendor moves on.…