Coding agents raised the bar on real software engineering skills
The thing I keep coming back to when I read takes about software engineering in 2026 is that the writing on the wall from people who actually ship software does not match…
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Proton’s AI Paper Trail reveals what chatbot history exposes
I ran Proton’s new AI Paper Trail on a fake export built from my own ChatGPT memory, and the result was a 21-out-of-100 exposure score with the label “Technical tester exploring AI…
OpenAltFinder matches proprietary apps to free open-source ones
You need to do a job on a computer, and the only tool you know for it costs money, or worse, phones home with everything you do. You have heard there is…
Comparing seven AI writing tools in 2026 without buying hype
The most common pattern in this category is paying for four AI writing subscriptions at once, running each of them through the same brief, and only realizing partway through month two that…
makerskills runs fine on Linux once you swap three macOS-only pieces
Claude Code is an AI coding assistant that lives in your terminal. makerskills is a plugin for it: a bundle of Markdown files that tell Claude how to handle different types of…
Why networking interview prep lists the wrong answers
Most linux interview prep lists the same 20 networking questions, with the same textbook answers, and most of them are wrong about which questions come up in a real interview. I have…
simplex chat asks its own users to fund the next year
Privacy-focused messaging apps have a recurring problem. The people who care about privacy are not the same people who pay for software. Most users expect the app to be free, the server…
shadow ai lives in the browser tab, not the perimeter
The loudest threat actors in 2026 are not the ones you read about on a Friday night. They are the ones already inside your building, sitting at a desk, doing their job.…
helldivers 2 lands on ps plus with a warhammer 40k twist
Helldivers 2, the Arrowhead Game Studios cooperative shooter that started in 2024 on PS5 and has since made its way to Xbox Series X|S and PC, just became part of the PlayStation…
How I built a hybrid book recommender with Python and Streamlit
Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…