I have been a Linux user since 1999. For a quarter of a century—with the brief exception of an iMac addition in 2009—Linux wasn’t just my operating system; it was my only operating system. As a web designer, I stayed…
For the last few years, the AI world has been obsessed with “Benchmarks.” We see endless tables, percentages, and MMLU scores. But for those of us actually building things, those numbers are meaningless. I don’t care if a model scores…
The AI Arms Race and the “Everlasting Bug” AI is an incredible elevator—it’s helping us write code faster than ever before. But the elevator goes both ways. While we use AI to learn and build, others could be using the…
In this guide, I’ll break down the three main parts of the free Celebrations app. Think of this as a map of the software. For many of you, the code inside that .html file looks like a jumble of symbols and brackets.…
Note: This is a complete “Single-File App.” All the code, instructions, and security steps required to successfully run this software are contained within this post. You can preview the app here Preview this app right now in your browser I…
As you dive into free apps page and explore the wider world of open source, you’re going to discover something incredible: there are thousands of developers giving away high-quality code for free. At first glance, it feels like a paradise…
You’ve got your workstation ready and your Ollama server humming in the background. But let’s be honest: copying and pasting code between a terminal and a text editor is a tedious, flow-killing process. To truly unlock the power of local…
Right now, the AI world is split into two camps: those who pay a monthly subscription to a cloud provider, and those who run their own AI locally on their own hardware. For me, running AI locally is the ultimate…
In my previous post, I talked about the “Great Migration”—that moment when a creator realizes their current OS is no longer serving their needs. For some of us, that migration looks like a “Software Evolution” (switching to Linux). But for…