The AI coding agent market has fragmented into terminal CLIs, AI-native IDEs, open-source extensions, and cloud-hosted engines. I ranked the ten most relevant ones so you can stop evaluating and...
Claude Code’s plugin and skills ecosystem has exploded. There are now dozens of framework repos promising to turn your terminal agent into a disciplined engineering team. I reviewed nine of...
https://parsec.app/downloads I haven’t given up on RustDesk as such, it is still easier to do remote support for others with RustDesk. But if you need near instant access to your...
Three days ago, Cheng Lou quietly dropped a library called Pretext. By “quietly” I mean the internet immediately caught fire. Here’s why, and what happened when I actually used it. The...
If you’ve been developing iOS apps for any length of time, you know the drill — you get a folder full of images and suddenly you’re resizing, converting, compressing, and...
The era of needing to send every query to a cloud API is ending. Modern Apple Silicon ships with enough unified memory and neural engine throughput to run 12-billion-parameter language...
If you’ve ever clicked “Open with GitHub Desktop” on a GitHub repo page and watched the wrong app launch — SourceTree, Fork, or something else entirely — you’re not alone. This is a macOS...
https://merowing.info/posts/stop-getting-average-code-from-your-llm/https://agents.md Sure, one day, AI agents will be good at self reinforcement, recursive improvement, etc, all towards singularity without eating up all your credits/money overnight. But until then, help the...
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat Just got around to sort this out. I only use my spare Win 11 computer for watching YouTube and stock/crypto charts, but still don’t like having other bloatware installed....
https://www.makeuseof.com/ultimate-rescue-usb-can-save-any-windows-pc Keep one of these in your drawer, just in case you will ever need to do a full recovery or rescue.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/buildiing-c-compiiler Why this AI breakthrough is a massive productivity booster for devs, not a replacement. If you’ve been online this week, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Anthropic’s new Opus 4.6...
Run two local AI runtimes behind a single secure reverse proxy with separate authentication Running Ollama or Swama locally is straightforward: start the server and connect via localhost. But if...
https://codeberg.org/ctietze/metal-toolchain-launchd-automounthttps://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/manually-mount-metal-toolchain/ If you are having problems with compiling code with Metal toolchain and can’t fix it by following install instruction in the error message “xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain”, try to manually...
Introduction Video downloading on macOS can be frustrating. iTubeGo requires clicking through dialogs; other tools are bloated or unreliable. But what if you could simply right-click on any URL and...
Automate GitHub topic updates! This tutorial shows how to efficiently bulk-update repository topics using cURL and Bash scripts, saving time and streamlining your workflow.
https://macdown.app Tried out a few markdown editor on macOS. MarkEdit, not bad, but no split view built-in. MarkText, 300MB app to do simple markdown editing is an overkill (even BBEdit...
I have a few computers, still prefer desktop with big screens and only use my MacBook Air if I have to travel around. I hope Apple will one day make...
For obvious reasons, I use proxy quite often. And now that I am doing a bit more coding with AI, I am starting to automate these and sharing them here....
LLMs conquer coding due to their deep understanding of code's structure. Their massive training data and pattern recognition enable efficient code generation, debugging, and understanding.
Running Ollama locally is straightforward: visit http://localhost:11434 and connect from your Python scripts or other tools. If you plan to expose your machine to the internet, though, you should add basic protections...
https://github.com/johnste/finickyhttps://www.johanbleuzen.fr/blog/open-right-browser-url-with-finickyhttps://dev.to/oliverburn/using-finicky-to-handle-urls-8bo I use several web browsers on my Mac. Safari is my primary, trusted browser. It’s generally faster and lighter on memory than Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers on macOS...
https://www.affinity.studio/graphic-design-softwarehttps://www.howtogeek.com/this-newly-free-photoshop-alternative-convinced-me-to-cancel-adobe/ Adobe can’t buy Canva. They have been trying to release various lite versions of their apps over the years to keep user upsell flow to Creative Cloud suite. Graphics...
To reset the tags of my posts in a particular category:
Been wanting to move all my old tweets over to this site for a while. Ever since X stopped their free API access, been too lazy to process the data...
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to...
Let’s walk through a very simple example of RSA encryption and decryption using small numbers, perfect for understanding the core concept. ⚠️ Note: This is not secure for real-world use. It’s for educational purposes...
Launching a tech startup is an exhilarating journey filled with both opportunity and uncertainty. While no two startups are the same, there are foundational principles that can significantly impact your...
https://www.businessinsider.com/vibe-coding-ai-silicon-valley-andrej-karpathy-2025-2 “Vibe coding is a new approach to programming that leverages AI tools to generate code based on natural language prompts. Instead of manually writing code, users describe what they...
https://www.cloudpanel.io Goodbye Cyberpanel. Been using it for over 6 years. From CentOS 7.6 till now. Moving on doesn’t mean it was all bad. I chose it over cpanel back then...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly It’s funny how US Gov keeps trying to make it difficult for their own companies to win, all in the name of fairness. Ignoring that users actually had the...
